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<span style="font-size:125%>'''Quotes:'''</span> | <span style="font-size:125%>'''Quotes:'''</span> | ||
* | * Living in the same household with genetically unrelated adults is the single biggest risk factor for abuse, neglect and homicide of children. Stepmothers are 2.4 times more likely to kill their stepchildren than birth mothers, and children living with an unrelated parents are between 15 and 77 times more likely to die ‘accidentally'. | ||
* Normative monogamy provides | * Normative monogamy provides increased opportunities for low-status males to marry, save and invest for the long term. The labour and talents of these would-be risk-taking criminals (and/or sub-stance abusers) are instead channelled into long-term investments in family and child-rearing (reliable economic productivity). Their pair-bonding and paternal investment psychologies are tapped and harnessed relatively more than their risky, status-seeking mindsets. | ||
<span style="font-size:125%>'''References:'''</span> | <span style="font-size:125%>'''References:'''</span> |
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