So a loyal woman doesn't need a fence, except that she does because he demonstrates his loyalty by putting one up and she doubts his loyalty and loses hers if it isn't there?
No. If a man looks at a woman and says... 'tend your own fences'... that's exactly what she'll do. And she'll do it in her own way. More than likely he won't like it one bit how she decides to do it.
If he cultivates her loyalty... the word/concept of fence never even enters the discussion, nor is it questioned. Unless the safety of her child is in question.
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Also, would you say that the maternal instinct has always driven a woman to mother her offspring as long as she can get away with, and it's just now becoming a problem for much the same reason that obesity is just now becoming a problem
Your are talking about two different things. The maternal instinct and 'the art of mothering.' One... you do, and you'd figure it out, based on instinct. The other is a method of child rearing, fostered by a higher-thinking, societal species.
