Males and Females bring different qualities to children.
Mothers stress emotional security and relationships, and fathers stress competition and risk taking.
Mothers express more concern for the child's immediate well-being, while fathers are typically more active and arousing in their nurturing activities, fostering certain physical skills and emphasizing autonomy and independence. In light of all we know about child development, mothers as a general rule should be the primary caretakers of infants during at least the first year to eighteen months of life. The practice of breast-feeding, a unique mother attribute, has enormous physical and psychological advantages for the infant. The exchange of the infant's breathing with the mother's, during breast feeding, allows the mother's body to build and exchange antibodies for the infant, through her breast milk. Mothers are inherently more sensitive to the needs of the non-verbal infant.