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...things driving that response, the most primal one may be evolution. Parents devote a lot of resources to raising a child - food, time, money, love - and those assets are usually in finite supply. All animals, humans included, are hardwired to spend wisely, devoting the most energy to the offspring most likely to yield the highest genetic payoff; healthy, beautiful offspring are the best bet of all. Perhaps women, who still must do the lion's share of childcare, are naturally more attuned to this trade-off than men are. "In general, men tend to be aesthetically oriented," Elman says...
More important, the way people of either gender react to a picture of an anonymous child with physical abnormalities is likely to be radically different from the way they would react if that child were their own - something that is readily evident from all the disabled children on whom parents lavish love. Still, the fact that both parents and nonparents in Elman's study reacted the same way to the pictures suggests that their responses are deeply ingrained and that they may be hard to mitigate simply by having children of their...
...Montereale says she subsequently attended a party at the Sardinian villa, which was filled with a score of other young, attractive women, including several dressed as Santa Claus. She says that Berlusconi gave her an envelope of cash to help with the costs of raising her child alone but insists that she did not have any physical contact with...
...stage in 2003, when she published the book The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Parents Are Going Broke, co-authored with her daughter. The book argues that women and middle-class couples were driving themselves to ruin trying to buy houses in good public-school districts: "Having a child is now the single best predictor that a woman will end up in financial collapse...
MADONNA adds another child to her collection...