January 22, 2012
Parent-Child Conflict: It's in the Genes
"The course of true love never did run smooth," as Shakespeare noted. Although directed to romantic love, the observation also applies to parents and their offspring—which appears counter to basic evolutionary wisdom. After all, the biological interests of parents and children would seem to coincide perfectly, because the latter are the former's major route to evolutionary success. The two generations ought, therefore, to be on the same page, because successful children literally mean
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