The world is spinning – and so are our perceptions of boys and girls, men and women, dads and moms.

Roles are expanding, or changing, choices proliferating, lives getting busier and fuller, and kids, and parents, thriving even as they work hard to keep pace.

So with Mother’s Day just past, and Father’s Day just ahead, I’m thinking about dads, mine, my kids, my grands.

And about what it means to be a dad, a mom.

And how even – or especially – in changing times, we need both.

From the very beginning, with sperm and egg, just a blip on a screen, then a tiny embryo, until the arrival of a precious new little one, created from those two bits of matter.

That flourishes into becoming a new little human, with parents to help ease the........

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