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“Daly and Wilson found stepparenthood is the strongest risk factor for child abuse ever identified..a stepparent is 40-100 times more likely to kill a young chi
by haihaibye 6y ago
“Daly and Wilson found stepparenthood is the strongest risk factor for child abuse ever identified..a stepparent is 40-100 times more likely to kill a young child, even when confounding factors— poverty, mother’s age, traits of people who tend to remarry—are taken into account"
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/816602.Homicide https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/816602.Homicide
- cmendel 6y agoOkay? That doesn't really support toasterlovin's claim that: >Nope. Most people will never care about someone else’s child the way they’ll care about their own flesh and blood. Stepparenthood implies a myriad of confounding factors, not the least of which are, a) death of a parent or b) Divorce. Upon further investigation, the link you posted does not contain the quote you posted, nor does searching the quoted text show return any results on either DuckDuckGo or Google. It is possible that this is a typographical error. I do want to point that EvoPsych is a bit iffy as far as fields go. See [1] if you're curious. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_psychology#Reception_and_criticism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_psychology#Recept...
- haihaibye 6y agoBeing 40-100 times less likely to kill a child is probably correlated with caring for them more. It was a quote from Pinker's how the mind works. The 'Daly and Wilson' referenced was what I linked to.