Benjamin Lacombe tributes mothers and fascinates us with Japanese spirits

Benjamin Lacombe tributes mothers and fascinates us with Japanese spirits

"The best mother in the world", the thousand types of motherhood in nature

This book is a beautiful tribute to maternal love through numerous animal species.Lacombe tells us why this tribute: "I wanted to make this tribute because I come from a very matriarchal family, I have several sisters and some have had children, and I saw that there are still many preconceived ideas around motherhood".

"For example," says Lacombe-, when a woman is already close to 40 years, "that the rice is going to pass", and then, when he has children, that things have to be done in a way or ofAnother ... all this framed in a social debate that exists, at least in France, about whether two men can be parents or two women can be mothers ... or if a woman can be a single mother ”.

Benjamin Lacombe homenajea a las madres y nos fascina con los espíritus japoneses

“And I also framed it-confesses-, within my desire and my inner reflection on having children or not.There are many people who use nature to ensure that those paternities or maternalities that I have commented are not natural.But the truth is that in nature there are a thousand types of maternities.In fact, most mothers in nature are single mothers, such as rabbits.And there are even females who do not want to be mothers, such as the sparrow that is seen in the book.And from there we realize that there is a lot of dogma about what it is and that it is not motherhood ”.

The writer Sébastien Perez agrees that the fundamental thing about these stories is diversity: “There are many ways to raise babies and the fundamental thing in the animal world is survival and protect the young from predators.Take care of them, cure them, teach them to integrate into their surroundings.The idea of this book is to learn from all these types of maternity and compare them, because, in the end, all these animal examples reflect the different types of human maternity, the different types of mothers that there may be.For example, the BEAs is very protective, but then but then there are many other types of maternity, more loving, more distant ”.

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