PSYCH 3GG3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Birth Order, Anna Freud, Robert Trivers

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 3GG3
• Professor: Mel Rutherford

Document Summary

Lecture 23 november 17: rates vary across culture - in some cultures its easier and some cultures it"s not legal. In north america, 40% of children will experience parental divorce and 10% will experience it twice: 65% of divorces mothers and 75% of divorced fathers remarry. Should we be comparing them to children with parents who have conflict but have not divorced. Over time: academic and behavioural measures improve, but still worse than kids who didn"t experience divorce. Girls after divorce: early sexual behaviour, more conflict with mother. Boys after divorce: aggression, delinquency in teen years, more drug use in teen years. Parent-offspring conflict - conflict between parent and offspring resulting from the fact that mutually exclusive courses of action would maximize each person"s inclusive fitness. If the benefit to your relative, discounted by the relatedness, outweighs the cost to yourself.