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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A better question is how many wives love their children more than they live their husband. Close to 100%, I’d say.[

That's not a fair question, parental love is the purest form of affection, no other relationship can compete with that, it's just biology. It works the same for both parents.[/quote]

Actually it’s not the same for both parents. In terms of evolutionary biology, a woman is wholly invested in her children because she may mit have many more, and if she does it will take time and resources (the latter need means she should find and keep a partner or team up with other mothers to collectively raise their children). For men, the biological imperative is to have as many children as possible to ensure his genes survive into the next generation. That means spreading his seed around. It also means he is probably not as invested in any single child as much as the mother of the child is.

Now, we have changed all this culturally over tens of thousands of years until we have arrived at the point where we value monogamy among parents and equal devotion to the children. But the biology evolves more slowly than the culture, and so we have women who feel that their husbands don’t live the children as much as they do, and men who continue to check out other women (even if they remain faithful to their wives).[/quote]

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