[medvezhenok]

Not exactly true - they have found statistically significant hormonal changes in men after becoming fathers: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/15/parenting/baby/fatherhood...

[thefz]

Reading the article... yikes. One more reason not to.

[em-bee]

yes, but did they compare to fathers who abandon their partner? or don't even know that they are a father? and likewise to fathers who adopt?

i strongly suspect that it's the act of actively becoming a parent, whether biological or adoptive that is responsible for that change in hormones

[hoorible]

Which is probably why they said “parenting” and not “impregnating”