PSY 375 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Weaning, Pre-Eclampsia, Homicide
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Alternative uses of parental investment: the needs that lead many of us to feel unconditional love for our children also seem to be remarkably persistent, for reasons that are not at present altogether clear. robert. So without evolutionary theory, parental feelings don"t make much sense : it"s not just professors who are clueless . Everyone worked and received the same income regardless of what work they did. A key feature of the kibbutz was that children were raised in a children"s quarters, by women who were not the biological parents. Mothers began insisting that their children live with them. The mother-child bond is apparently instinctive or primal. It apparently occurs in all societies: parental investment: investment that increases one offspring"s rs to the detriment or cost of the parent"s ability to invest elsewhere (e. g. , finding more mates, investing in other offspring), infanticide.
