Motherhood and the Relationships of the Sexes
CONTENTS OF CHAPTER III  INSECT PARENTHOOD       The necessity of beginning the investigation of motherhood     before human parenthood—The instinct not fixed but dependent     on circumstances and the conditions of life—Experiments in     family life—Bewildering diversity in strength of parental     instinct—Numerous cases of insect home makers—Domestic economy     of bees and ants—Does the word “instinct” explain—Parental     devotion of the scarabee beetles—Fabre’s account—Important to     note (1) connection between form of union or marriage of the     sexes and parental devotion, (2) connection between degree of     intelligence in the parent and amount of care devoted to the     young.