I can't add any insight here except this........

A praying mantis bites the head off her mate because if she doesn't.....their species will cease to exist! He cannot complete copulation (ejaculate) with his head attached (something in his brain won't allow it).....and she is smart enough to know that! She doesn't do it because she hates him.....but because she appreciates what he has done for her.......his scarifice of self will help their species live on! And that's all I have to say about that.....lmao!

I am, however, following this thread closely because my baby sister is a single parent and her son has NO grandparents and NO male figure in his life.....he is 13 going on 29 and she is at wits end at this moment as to what to do to guide him in the right direction! Up until just this year he has been an exemplary child.....and then he became posessed! It seems to me that silentsoul has a good point about outside sources influencing a childs life, no matter the good examples set at home!!! Please correct me if I'm wrong......but how else could one explain my sister's son changing into a horror, seemingly overnight???

BTW...did I mention he is 13.....and has "discovered himself"??? He now knows EVERYTHING, including everything sexual....and doesn't need sis's influence to interrupt him while he goes about his life!!!!!

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