Motherhood and the Relationships of the Sexes
A CHAPTER ON GOOD FATHERS       The parental impulse not always fixed in the mother—Among     reptiles and fishes, such care as is afforded by parents is     given most frequently by the father—Suggested reason for     this—Primitive hatching nurseries—Parental care among frogs     and toads—Many examples of exemplary fathers—The devotion     of the male stickleback—The unnatural conduct of the female     stickleback—The emotions of the fish—Fish fathers who guard     the nest—Perpetual variety in the actions of even the lowliest     parents—Summary—No continuous line of development of instinct     in scale of animals—Much baffles our explanations—Suggestions     important to my inquiry—Reversal of sex labours—Is it due to     failure on the part of the mother—Devoted parents are of high     intelligence.