Are gender roles taught or ingrained in our DNA? Nothing compares to a Mothers love.

A mother's love is a love like no other, a love that spans a lifetime. A love that one does not truly understand until they become a mother or are of a mother. A love that has no bounds or barriers and unbreakable for it's entirety.

Watching the love bond is a beautiful experience, where I will never have the same level of love I get to watch it build and bloom into a strong and powerful force that isn't penetrable. The love of a father is different to that of a mother.

We refer to nature as mother nature because she is kind, caring, nurturing the creator of life. The beginning of life itself and if it were not for mother nature giving birth to all things we would not be here.

A mother's love is the glue that keeps life alive and continues to nurture all things ensuring growth and the continuation of life itself.

A mother's embrace is not comparable to any other and it is the only place you can feel safe and protected, wiping away many of the worlds problems in a single embrace.

A father's strength can not be compared to that of a mother's hold, the nurturing compassion versus the worriors grasp. Despite being thousands of years away from our ancestors the human DNA is imbedded with survival features which I have always found at conflict with popular opinions on subject matter relating to Men Vs Women.

This has never been more evident to me until I had children of my own as popular opinion incorrectly states that many things are taught behaviour and not ingrained. But how can this be so when despite having a more flexible relationship where our home roles are shared gender roles still begin to surface in young children.

The caring nurturing need of a mother can not be replaced with the strong hands of a father, despite my tries over four years a mother's breast is still what my children crave for comfort. Perhaps my children are unique I have only had two and can only refer to my personal experience.

But my children's rejection of a plastic bottle regardless of breast milk or formula indicates that a baby who isn't able to cognitively separate breast from bottle still knows the difference.

COVID19 caused a total lockdown and the first year of my sons life was different to that of my daughters, my daughter suffered as I went to work every day and was not home for 12 hours a day. I associated this with the cause of my inability to meet my wifes love.

However, with our second child the roles have been completely reversed, I am the one at home and my son has seen me everyday. He still cries for his mother and longs for her embrace.

Despite providing my full devoted love and attention to my son it hasn't netted any differences to what I experienced with my daughter at a young age. Which according to popular belief and current system woke culture is not atune to what they are telling us. That men can do more.

Men can do more and many men do, I have always cooked as I enjoy it I clean although my level of clean is probably different to my wifes but when it comes down to a biological level and child raising it appears DNA wins.

But there are changes and I am noting them, at 4 years of age it is very much about dads love and engagement. Where my daughter still prefers her mother (as she tells me all the time) she spends alot more time with me. I have noticed a shift in regards to her attention and connection, I am not certain if it's because there is another child in the race for attention and I am the next best option. But my daughter and I have always gone out together and been active explorers.

Although, I do find myself in 3rd place on the spectrum of love as my son and daughters bond is far greater than mine and anyones in the home. Not that I find an issue with it, these two will need each other more than anything in life. I come from a significantly fractured family having multiple siblings some of which didn't make it. I appeared to be the strongest from the lot going out and carving my place in this world. A brother turned to drugs and my sisters still stuck in direction but mainly based on a world that's changing.

As someone who started their career in social work studying psychology I have always been fascinated by Nature Vs Nurture and have always been on the side of nature. Where human culture can be shaped by nurture much of it was developed based on nature.

The debate about how much of something or someone is impacted by the environment they are raised in has always been a debate. But no evidence is greater than what is showcased in babies. Void canvas's new to a world if woke culture was correct then I should have had two different outcomes with my children. But it has not led to a difference.

This doesn't negate much of the worlds problems and view of women which can and should still be changed but I think gender roles to some degree are rooted in our DNA.

Further evidence can be concluded when assessing global cultures as many cultures that are worlds apart still have managed to move in similar direction despite not having any linkages through history.

We can further expand our views and turn to our environment and the animal kingdom where similar instances of gender roles naturally occur which, in a political vacuum and no influence still manifest.

Genetic development has ensured our survival on this planet and it is a model that has been adapted in much of the life of all living things.

If anything is a barrier to women or humans itself it is capitalism, a system born of wealth for wealth which is incompatible with nature. Drawing value of resources that have no value in the process damaging the survival features of our species.

As the old saying goes that has survived for generations, Money is the root of all evil.

Perhaps that is where we need to start if we want to address gender roles.

What are your thoughts?