The Truth about Cinderella: A Darwinian View of Parental Love

by Martin Daly, Margo Wilson

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780300080292
Publisher:	Yale University Press
Publication date:	10/28/1999
Series:	Darwinism Today series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	80
Product dimensions:	4.50(w) x 7.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Martin Daly and Margo Wilson are professors of psychology at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.