We can no more create the perfect environment for our children than we can create perfect children.

If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.

In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men.

When women gain access to higher education and then suddenly start doing better at it than the men, that can really throw the prevailing social order out of balance. That's exactly what's happened in South Korea, which is a highly patriarchal society. They started educating women, and then they were no longer the women that society wants them to be. That caused a real cultural crisis.

Attachment parenting demands not just certain actions you take with your baby but also certain emotional states to accompany those actions.

Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others.

We can no more create the perfect environment for our children than we can create perfect children.