Oddbean new post about login | logout there are caretakers and players sometimes players have more kids they just hide the eggs in someone else's nest most women prefer these assholes until age 40. I call it a "bad man detector"
Most players aren't having that many kids, anymore, because of contraception (and, to a lesser-extent) abortion. And they tend to be reproducing with women who aren't good mothers. Doubt those children will be very successful.
Interesting. I have almost the opposite position. It is these kids that are looking for success because they miss other things. And they do tend to have more kids
They don't have more kids, anymore. Married women have the highest fertility. And the statistics for fatherless children are dismal, across the board. It's not a death-sentence, but they all suffer from it. As far as I know (and I've looked!), there are no statistics where fatherless children outperform those raised in the house with their dad. Unless you consider "being more likely to commit suicide or be murdered" as outperforming. Example: https://ifstudies.org/blog/life-without-father-less-college-less-work-and-more-prison-for-young-men-growing-up-without-their-biological-father
Well i didn't say fatherless. That's a total different thing. I said parents who don't really care.
Those two things tend to correlate. Parents try very hard to stay together, when they care.
Exactly. Players don't try to stay together because of the children. That's exactly my point. They make a kid, when the situation becomes demanding the divorce. Then a kid with another partner, both women and men. Then divorce again. Having kids is not a measure for quality. Not at all
It actually is, as sustainable marriages are the most fertile. There are different methods for achieving "kids" or even "more kids", but the most reliable path is to just find one woman and treat her well-enough to stick around. That's why men have evolved to treat women well.
Just have to look at life success statistics for fatherless children versus those raised in the house with their father. They fill the prisons, the brothels, the psychiatric clinics and detox centers. You can see the damage right in their DNA: "Kids who were raised without a dad have much shorter telomeres, the protective caps at the ends of chromosomes that are believed to affect health and longevity" https://www.christianpost.com/news/fatherlessness-shows-up-in-childrens-dna-affects-lifespan-study.html
the kids are raised by other men
Well, easy enough to avoid unwittingly being "the other man", nowadays. Also, if the "other man" has children with her, too, or is incapable of siring children, he may decide it's worth the effort. Being a stepfather isn't necessarily a bad deal.
