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Gidday Gary. As a former primary school teacher, trained in a dedicated teachers training college, we studied early human development at depth, and I have studied it ever since. I learned much from fifty years of close association with tribal Aborigines of Arnhem Land, north Australia, where there is a 24,000 year continuity of child-raising law in which every member of the extended family has his or her special role in the development of babies, infants and children. I have compared this with Kung and Inuit, and several other cultures, which is pretty much akin to time travel. Nothing was as people today think it was, but in general terms, a healthy human commences with a healthy mother prior to conception. Ourproblems in the west commenced with the industrial revolution, when we caome to cities and left the grandparents behind. We had to invent parenting from scratch and seriously screwed this up. We have never recovered. Now the same is happening to Aborigines as colonial white administrations replace extended family with western roles of teachers, police, TV, social media, and social workers. I just thought I would pass those thoughts along because of your expressed interest in this subject. It is possible that Darcia too, might be interested.

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Thanks for this first hand experience, it would seem to support what Darcia finds by studying small band hunter gatherer societies, and which I would tend agree with too.

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Way off topic.

But I am still listening to this brilliant stem cell doctor, and I thought, since he, inter alia, alludes to Parkindon's, that you will love the entire interview. Since you are a scientist, especially, you will be able to understand it! .... Dr. Rowen interviews Dr. Todd Ovakitis on seminal stem cell research.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0psV1B3s9z4

#10 Dr Todd Ovakitis on Groundbreaking Stem Cell Therapies

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