Slightly!  

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Adam P. Coutts
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Subject: [SDOH] Evolutionary Explanations for Societal Differences in
Single Parenthood

a slightly non-political examination of single parenthood!

http://www.epjournal.net/filestore/ep03142174.pdf

Evolutionary Explanations for Societal Differences in Single Parenthood
Nigel Barber, Ph.D.,

Evolutionary Psychology
human-nature.com/ep - 2005. 3: 142-174

Abstract: The new research strategy presented in this paper,
Evolutionary Social Science, is designed to bridge the gap between
evolutionary psychology that operates from the evolutionary past and
social science that is bounded by recent history. Its core assumptions
are (1) that modern societies owe their character to an interaction of
hunter-gatherer adaptations with the modern environment; (2) that
changes in societies may reflect change in individuals; (3) that
historical changes and cross-societal differences are due to the same
adaptational mechanisms, and
(4) that different social contexts (e.g., social status) modify
psychological development through adaptive mechanisms. Preliminary
research is reviewed concerning historical, societal, and cross-national
variation in single parenthood as an illustration of the potential
usefulness of this new approach. Its success at synthesizing the
evidence demonstrates that the time frames of evolutionary explanation
and recent history can be bridged.

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