The Truth about Cinderella
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A Darwinian View of Parental Love
Martin Daly and Margo Wilson
A child is one hundred times more likely to be abused or killed by a stepparent than by a genetic parent, say two scientists in this startling book. Martin Daly and Margo Wilson show that the mistreatment of stepchildren, long a staple of folk tales, has a solid basis in fact; Daly and Wilson apply the perspective of evolutionary psychology to investigate why stepparenthood is different from genetic parenthood and why steprelationships succeed or fail.
Martin Daly and Margo Wilson are professors of psychology at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.
A selection of the Natural Science Book Club
ISBN: 9780300080292
Publication Date: October 11, 1999
Publication Date: October 11, 1999
80 pages, 4 1/2 x 7