Filed under: Books | Tags: child support, Deadbeat Dads, money, puberty, sex
Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters is a fun and interesting book written by two psychologists Alan S. Miller & Satoshi Kanazawa which tries to explains differences in people. Here are some comments about Divorce:
1. Having sons reduces the likelihood of divorce, especially in wealthy families. A couple of different reasons are offered such as the Sons need a Father figure and Wealth passes down through families. I don’t think anyone mentioned that boys are simply more valued and are also often a handful to deal with from a behavioral point of view.
2. Girls of divorced parents experience puberty earlier, especially if the divorced happens before they are five. Again a couple of different reasons are offered but nobody mentions that kids in divorced families are exposed to sex a lot earlier and often listen to their parent’s relationship struggles. Kids from divorced families tend to know their astrological charts a lot earlier too. This wasn’t mentioned in the book but I just thought I would mention it because I see it as being a positive thing.
3. Deadbeat Dads. In 1991 statistics, 25 percent of mothers received no child support from the fathers. 52 percent said that they only received a portion of the support that was decided by the court.
