http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxytocin

This was the one honest thing I learned in American sex education.  When a woman has sex, gives birth, or breastfeeds, her body releases oxytocin that helps bond her to the sexual partner or child.

*QN swashbuckles in*

Darqstar- totally agree.  Different people are different parents.  Dusdeedawn is right, though science has proven there is a hormone rush at birth and during breastfeeding that bonds a mother to a child, it's only one factor.  In the case of a parent who didn't want to have the child but did anyway, it probably won't help at all.  And Fanatical parents who try to force childless adults into having kids aren't doing any favors for the adults or the children.

I wonder if those Fanatical parents are actually being good parents to their children.  My parents said they were ready to have kids when I was born...but, well...my therapist can explain the situation with more sanity than I can.