The Truth about Cinderella: A Darwinian View of Parental Love (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780300080292)

A child is one hundred times more likely to be abused or killed by a stepparent than by a genetic parent, say two scientists in this startling book. Martin Daly and Margo Wilson show that the mistreatment of stepchildren, long a staple of folk tales, has a solid basis in fact; Daly and Wilson apply the perspective of evolutionary psychology to investigate why stepparenthood is different from genetic parenthood and why steprelationships succeed or fail.

Author: Martin Daly, Margo Wilson
ISBN-10: 0300080298
ISBN-13: 9780300080292
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/11/1999
Pages: 80
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 7.34h x 4.89w x 0.56d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 08/30/1999 pg. 70
Booklist 09/01/1999 pg. 40