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The biology of mammalian parenting and its effect on offspring social development
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Parents know the transformative nature of having and caring for a child. Among many mammals, giving birth leads from an aversion to infant stimuli to irresistible attraction. Here, we review the biological mechanisms governing this shift in parental motivation in mammals. Estrogen and progesterone prepare the uterus for embryo implantation and placental development. Prolactin stimulates milk production, whereas oxytocin initiates labor and triggers milk ejection during nursing. These same molecules, interacting with dopamine, also activate specific neural pathways to motivate parents to nurture, bond with, and protect their offspring. Parenting in turn shapes the neural development of the infant social brain. Recent work suggests that many of the principles governing parental behavior and its effect on infant development are conserved from rodent to humans.
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“Mother–infant bonding enables the ongoing maternal drive to care for one’s young, thus improving long-term outcomes for offspring [5,20].”
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“Considerable insights have been gained into the neural mechanisms driving the evolutionary antecedents of love by studies in animal models of pair bonding, particularly in monogamous species such as prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster).”
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“Parental behaviors generally involve oxytocin (Rilling & Young 2014), although some aspects such as nest building instead require vasopressin”
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“Social synchrony is an evolutionary-ancient mechanism that binds members into a social group; rodents15 and primates16,17 exhibit behavioral mimicking, a precursor of human social synchrony, and in both, familiarity with conspecific bolsters behavioral matching18.”
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“Work in rats has demonstrated that central OT signalling is crucial for the onset of maternal nurturing behaviour (1,2).”
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“OXTR affects a range of social behaviors in animals including maternal nurturing and bonding (1, 2), social reward and gregariousness (3, 4), social recognition (5), and pair bonding in monogamous species (6–8).”
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“Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in noncoding regions of the human OXTR have been associated with pair bonding behaviors (19), parenting (1), face recognition skills (20), and autism (21).”
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“Some of the behavioral effects of OXT and AVP are functionally linked to their peripheral function, as OXT promotes birth and nursing but also parental nurturing, while AVP modulates urine production and also territorial behavior, which often involves urine and scent marking (17,18).”
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“OXT is well known for its influence on social bonding and maternal behavior (9,18), and its role in parental behavior highlights the putative function of OXT as an attentional modulator (122).”
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“For instance, hypothalamic lesions block the initiation, but not the maintenance, of maternal behaviors in rats (18), suggesting that OXT may specifically facilitate the transition from avoidance of pups to caring for them (19,20).”
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“Systemic loss of either oxytocin or oxytocin receptors (Oxt−/− and Oxtr−/−) disrupts maternal nurturing behaviours in mice7,8.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Rilling, J. K., & Young, L. J.
- Affiliations
- Emory University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Young, Larry J.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2014-08-15
- Volume
- 345
- Issue
- 6198
- Pages
- 771-776
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- PMC
- PMC4306567
- OpenAlex
- W2119333871
- Cited by
- 452
- References
- 44
- Citations by year
- 2026: 22 · 2025: 26 · 2024: 19 · 2023: 25 · 2022: 45 · 2021: 43 · 2020: 31 · 2019: 38 · 2018: 50 · 2017: 50 · 2016: 45 · 2015: 53 · 2014: 4
- FWCI
- 7.20
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- europepmc.org
- Locations
- Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- John Templeton Foundation
- National Institutes of Health (UL1TR000454, P51OD011132)
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH096983, P50MH100023)
- National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Endocrine and Autonomic Systems › Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Infant Health and Development
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Keywords
- parental motivation, maternal behavior, estrogen, progesterone, prolactin, oxytocin, dopamine, maternal-infant bonding, social brain development, lactation, placental development
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Brain, Child Development, Dopamine, Female, Hormones, Humans, Infant, Male, Mammals, Maternal Behavior, Oxytocin, Paternal Behavior, Social Change, Parenting
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