We overwhelmingly give custody of children to the statistically worse parent
Is the implied policy suggestion here to decrease the number of children being raised without married parents (e.g., by making divorce harder, discouraging premarital sex, encouraging abortion if the parents aren’t married, &c.), or are you proposing awarding custody disputes to the father more often? Your phrasing (“the statistically worse parent”) seems to suggest the latter, but the distribution of single fathers today is obviously not going to be the same as the distribution after a change in custody rules!
(Child care is cross-culturally assumed to be predominantly “women’s work” for both evolutionary and cultural-evolutionary reasons: against that background, there’s going to be a selection effect whereby men who volunteer to be primary caretakers are going to be disproportionately unusually well-suited to it.)
When your performance in a task is directly correlated to the presence or absence of another, what does that say about your value in that task?
If the presence or absence of the other also contributes to the task performance, then honestly, not much? If kids are better off in two-parent households, that’s an argument in favor of two-parent households: if you have a thesis about women and mothers specifically, you need additional arguments for that.
(I feel bad for how little intellectually-honest engagement you must get, so I guess I’ll chip in with some feedback.)
Is the implied policy suggestion here to decrease the number of children being raised without married parents (e.g., by making divorce harder, discouraging premarital sex, encouraging abortion if the parents aren’t married, &c.), or are you proposing awarding custody disputes to the father more often? Your phrasing (“the statistically worse parent”) seems to suggest the latter, but the distribution of single fathers today is obviously not going to be the same as the distribution after a change in custody rules!
(Child care is cross-culturally assumed to be predominantly “women’s work” for both evolutionary and cultural-evolutionary reasons: against that background, there’s going to be a selection effect whereby men who volunteer to be primary caretakers are going to be disproportionately unusually well-suited to it.)
If the presence or absence of the other also contributes to the task performance, then honestly, not much? If kids are better off in two-parent households, that’s an argument in favor of two-parent households: if you have a thesis about women and mothers specifically, you need additional arguments for that.
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