So, from the perspective of the mother's evolutionary fitness, it makes sense for her to cease nursing the current infant as soon as the cost to future offspring exceeds the benefit to the current infant.

Since little is known about autism, and almost nothing has been written for the layman, we'd like to share one experienced mother's comments.

The meekest, most submissive wife of today is a tiger by her mother's or grandmother's standards.

There is reason to suppose that Lucy would have made a record as publicly distinguished as her brother had it not been that her mother's death occurred just as she was about to enter college.

`` All we have left in the world is one another, and we must stay together the way Mother wanted '', Kowalski said in telling his children of their mother's death yesterday afternoon.

There are various other versions of his transgression: The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women and pseudo-Apollodoran Bibliotheke state that his offense was that he was a rival of Zeus for Semele, his mother's sister, whereas in Euripides ' Bacchae he has boasted that he is a better hunter than Artemis:

Andromeda is the daughter of an Aethiopian king in Greek mythology who, as divine punishment for her mother's bragging, the Boast of Cassiopeia, was chained to a rock as a sacrifice to a sea monster aroused by the queen's hubris.

The mother of a bastard may summon the putative father to petty sessions within 12 months of the birth ( or at any later time if he is proved to have contributed to the child's support within 12 months after the birth ), and the justices, as after hearing evidence on both sides, may, if the mother's evidence be corroborated in some material particular, adjudge the man to be the putative father

In Philip Norman's biography it is stated that his mother's family claimed to be descended from the English navigator Francis Drake.

Regarding the shape of the breast, the study The Evolution of the Human Beast ( 2001 ) proposed that the rounded shape of a woman's breast evolved to prevent the sucking infant offspring from suffocating while feeding at the teat ; that is, because of the human infant's small jaw, which did not project from the face to reach the nipple, he or she might block the nostrils against the mother's breast if it were of a flatter form ( cf.

In a newborn infant, the capability of lactation is consequence of the mother's circulating hormones ( prolactin, oxytocin, etc.

* The gospel of John gives no account of the Nativity of Jesus, unlike those of Matthew and Luke, and his mother's name is never given.

In this reading, Hamlet is disgusted by his mother's " incestuous " relationship with Claudius while simultaneously fearful of killing him, as this would clear Hamlet's path to his mother's bed.

Bernard would seem to have been speaking of conception in the active sense of the mother's cooperation, for in his argument he says: " How can there be absence of sin where there is concupiscence ( libido )?

Based on the Biblical injunction against cooking a kid in its mother's milk, this rule is mostly derived from the Oral Torah, the Talmud and Rabbinic law.

He was named for his mother's maternal grandfather, Colonel John Quincy, after whom Quincy, Massachusetts, is named.

Nothing is now known of Gutenberg's life for the next fifteen years, but in March 1434, a letter by him indicates that he was living in Strasbourg, where he had some relatives on his mother's side.

Jason's father is invariably Aeson, but there is great variation as to his mother's name.

Likewise, Jarrett's explosion of rage in prison on being told of his mother's death is widely hailed as one of Cagney's most memorable performances.

Since Zachariah is described as a priest of the course of Abijah and his wife, Elizabeth, as one of the daughters of Aaron, this would make John a descendant of Aaron on both his father's and mother's side.

During the Tang Dynasty a small parrot ventures out to search for its mother's favourite food upon which it is captured by a poacher ( parrots were quite popular during the Tang Dynasty ).

At birth the joey, only long, crawls into the downward-facing pouch on the mother's belly ( which is closed by a drawstring-like muscle that the mother can tighten at will ) and attaches itself to one of the two teats.

The priest of Toda Kakinomoto Shrine is Ayabe, and he is the 49th of Hitomaro's mother's line.

Because a phocid mother's feeding grounds are often hundreds of kilometers from the breeding site, she must fast while lactating.

" Milk stealers " that suckle from unrelated, sleeping females are not uncommon ; this often results in the death of the mother's pup, since a single female can only feed one pup.

Young females disperse to nearby areas at that time ; young males often stay in the mother's home range until they are two or three years old.

" Nonetheless he often spent long periods at Château de Saché, near Tours, the home of his friend Jean de Margonne, his mother's lover and father to her youngest child.

A male's rank in the social hierarchy is often determined by his mother's rank.

Christabel Pankhurst, often called the favourite child, spent almost 15 years working by her mother's side for women's suffrage.

As soon as they emerge, they are often left in a sheltered area ( such as a hollow in a tree ) while the mother searches for food for herself, but within days they learn to grab hold of the mother's back and travel with her.

Nancy Astor, née Nancy Langhorne, was her mother's sister and Grenfell often visited her at Astor's home, Cliveden.

" Drawing aside the curtain, he allowed the onlookers — often visibly horrified — to observe Merrick up close, while describing the circumstances leading to his present condition, including his mother's accident with an elephant.

The most common reasons for abandoning children in literature are oracles that the child will cause harm ; the mother's desire to conceal her illegitimate child, often after rape by a god ; or spite on the part of people other than the parents, such as sisters and mothers-in-law in such fairy tales as The Dancing Water, the Singing Apple, and the Speaking Bird.

Raymond often finds himself in the middle of all the problems and arguments and proves himself incapable of taking any sort of stand, especially if there is the chance that it will bring down his mother's wrath on him.

They construct simple nests from whatever material is close to hand, often lining them with a layer of down plucked from the mother's breast.

Lerner would often take potatoes from his mother's garden and, using various other fruits and vegetables as facial features, he would make dolls with which his younger sisters could play.

He was often ridiculed as a child because of rumors about his mother's prison sentence for allegedly murdering an African American freeman, and some of those rumors stated that he was born in prison.

Her love of acting clashed with her mother's strict religious beliefs, and it wasn't too long before Vance, nicknamed " Viv " by friends, became very rebellious, often sneaking out of her bedroom and staying out after curfew.

Many Tachinid eggs hatch quickly, having partly developed inside the mother's uterus, which is long and often coiled for retaining developing eggs.

He was bullied at school, claiming that by the age of 15, he had been on the " losing end of several hundred fights " and that his father, usually on his mother's recommendation, beat him often as a child.

His constant talking often annoys those around him, and when faced with an extremely stressful situation he will wear his mother's sundress and bonnet for comfort.

His unusual middle name has often been a source of amusement ; it stems from a Scottish tradition of giving children their mother's maiden name as a middle name.

* Telegony ( pregnancy ) – the theory that an offspring can inherit characteristics from a previous mate of its mother's as well as its actual parents, often associated with racism.

Crosby attended the nightly 8. 00 pm services, where gospel songs written by her and Doane were often sung, including " ballads recalling mother's prayers, reciting the evils of intemperance, or envisioning agonizing deathbed scenes intending to arouse long-buried memories and strengthen resolves ".

Friends with Willow Rosenberg in junior high, she would often go over to Willow's house and eat brownies to escape her mother's abuse.

In older literature, this group is often referred to as the Pupipara (" pupa-bearers "), in reference to the fact that, unlike virtually all other insects, most of the larval development takes place inside the mother's body, and pupation occurs almost immediately after " birth " – in essence, instead of laying eggs a female lays full-size pupae one at a time.

For example, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero ( elected for terms as Prime Minister of Spain in the 2004 and 2008 general elections ) is often called simply Zapatero, the name he inherited from his mother's family, since Rodríguez is a common surname and may be ambiguous.