A Mother Worries Pointlessly

 The next entry on the genetic bugs series.

 Women worry, but there's no reason for them to. It's entirely a waste of time and effort. She can't protect her children from any real dangers. If a bear threatens them, all that will happen is she'll get eaten first, with the babe as desert. The things she can [[protect]] her children from are things she shouldn't protect them from. She can protect them from maturity or independence. In divorce-happy countries, she can protect them from having a father or money. She can protect them from risk and failure, thus protecting them from having skills or growth.

 A pile of pointless pain. Worse than pointless, as this is one of the few female emotions that inspire something other than maudlin whining. It inspires real, but harmful, action.

 Recalling again this is due to aeons of dysgenic marriages arranged by men. There were women that didn't suck so hard, but they were shafted on the husband market. 

 Since women physically or psychologically can't take responsibility, her husband is responsible for ensuring all her worry-induced sabotage is suppressed. Generally he has to be proactive and successfully predict it. It helps to be manipulative. Don't tell her you're suppressing her worries because woman, distract and discombobulate her, make it seem like it's [helping] or whatever. She should never find out that you hold her worrying in contempt, or she'll get passive-aggressive and hide her self-absorbed [accidental] sabotage worse than she already does. In a majority of families, the mother dying in childbirth is one of the best possible events, ensuring their future prosperity.

 

 Imagine a species where the mother wasn't one of the major hazards children need to protect themselves against. 

 See also: get her pregnant again, so she's too busy to bother the weaned children. Ensure her daughters start getting pregnant by the time she hits menopause and can't get pregnant anymore, then get her completely absorbed with dealing with the grandchildren. 

 P.S. Men of course also have many harmful instincts, but unlike women, can control themselves. Unlike peasants, men will control themselves.