“Kids who grow up with active grandparents involved in their daily lives do far better through their entire lifetime than those deprived of such contacts.”
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“What is evolution “telling” us? Answer: if we’re deprived of love, we wither. If we get “born again” into the religion of greed, we kill ourselves.”
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“The evolutionary advantage of being a cultural animal might be described as the learning of altruism.”
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“We evolved mercy and forgiveness because we evolved the ability to feel empathy, and we aren’t alone. Love is a thing but not only a human ‘thing.’ Love is bigger than just us. Dogs too evolved the capacity to crave love and to return love and service to others.”
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“It seems to me that besides facing procreation, women’s ability to be happy as parents has been attacked by our capitalist system that makes sure they have no good choices unless they are rich. Fortunately, plenty of people are calling for change with women leading the charge.”
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“As we evolved into communities that depended on each other, empathy and egalitarianism also evolved. Feminism was thus inevitable as an evolutionary step.”
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“As you will read in the chapters to follow, I believe that evolution is on the side of love. So I am hopeful love can win. I’m hopeful because of my own lifetime experiences prove that even damaged goods like me can be at least partially healed and changed. I’m hopeful love can win because a series of national racial crises exposed our failings, and people who had previously stood on the sidelines stepped up to fight for fairness. I’m hopeful love can win because the desire for change in 2020 and in 2021 had a power that was made manifest as crowds flooded through American cities and small towns to protest the murder of George Floyd.
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“This book is for every parent fighting for more time with their children; every grandparent who cares about their grandchildren; anyone thinking about having children; gay, straight, and nonbinary people trying to balance career and family; high school and college students trying to figure out relationship strategies; anyone in love who wants a “how-to” on how to stay in love; feminists looking for an unlikely male ally; and legislators looking for support and ideas related to crafting family-friendly legislation.”
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“As we shall see, we evolved to love first and strive second. That’s because (as I’ll go into in more detail in Chapter 2) as we evolved, human babies’ brains got so big that they couldn’t complete their growth in utero. Unlike most other mammals, we humans had to birth babies with huge heads and still survive. Human babies’ skulls remained flexible in order not to kill their mothers, but that wasn’t enough.”
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