Parenting and kinship Flashcards
As offspring will share half of their genes from each parent, they will share the same halves as their siblings, true or false
False
What is costly parenting?
Each animal has different approaches to their parenting, such as birds spend a lot of time finding food for their young awesome fish will have their babies and see
How does uncertainty relate to parenting?
 men, maybe less likely to want to raise a child if they are unsure if it is their. Conversely women can be sure it is there’s those more parental investment and grandparental investment on their side than men..
The mother’s parents will have the most investment starting with the grandmother, and then the father’s parents will have the least parental investment. In particular, the father’s father.
Describe parental offspring,
 Based off parental investment theory argues that self is always related to itself then any siblings. That makes you take care of yourself instead of your siblings as selective payoff. However, parents are equally related to all of their children, so the parents shouldn’t theoretically prioritise one child.. This is conflict in resource allocation
How do parents feel about investing in their children and give an example
Parents are going to want to stop investing in a single offspring before the offspring wants to stop and this leads to parent offspring conflict.
 The parent, however, would want to have more than one offspring to like in the chances of success 
It’s like Joey kangaroos must have the first baby out of their pouch before they can have the second baby 
What is the human example of siblings, wanting more investment from parents?
 a study, found that during puberty, teenage girls wanted more parental investment from their mother
Hello, mother might find that if they have a teenage daughter, their daughter would be more likely to help with the younger sibling compared to if they didn’t have a daughter
Conflict 
Describe discriminative parental care
Parents may discriminate between certain offspring, depending on the uncertainty of parentage, or having to be a step parent
E.g. if a lion moves into a new pride he will kill offspring which aren’t his
Few available resources
Competition with other children over resources
Sex differences in offspring
Give an example of preference for a sex over another in parental investment
 bsby formula was advertised as better in higher social economic groups than breast milk but also the quality of breastmilk for female offspring in Hyatt social economic groups
Explain when offspring investment is not worth it
 it’s usually not worth it if the woman is too young to have a baby and wants to start her career compared to when she is older and more settled
This is why studies have shown that younger women and unmarried women are more likely to have abortions and commit in fantasise, because they do not have the resources to be able to care for the child
How do step parents relate to parental investment
Well, many step parents are very loving, the amount of step parents abuse stepchildren is high 
