The Truth about Cinderella
Subtitle: A Darwinian View of Parental Love (Darwinism Today series)
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: October 11, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9780300080292
Subjects: Social Science; Family / Parenting / Childbirth; Sociology; Family Relationships; Parenting - General; Sociology - Marriage & Family; Family & Relationships / Parenting; Child abuse; Folklore; Parent And Child; Stepfamilies; Stepparents
First sentence: The abused stepchild is one of the stock characters of folklore.
Description: "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 to stepchildren, long a staple of folktales, 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."--Jacket.