Posted on 05/03/2005 8:27:09 AM PDT by LW McMurray
Canadian researchers have made a startling assertion: parents take better care of pretty children than they do ugly ones.
But late in the article comes this quote from Dr. Frans de Waal, a professor of psychology at Emory University:
"The question," he said, "is whether ugly people have fewer offspring than handsome people. I doubt it very much. If the number of offspring are the same for these two categories, there's absolutely no evolutionary reason for parents to invest less in ugly kids."......this is the where evoltionary argument is going.....
(Excerpt) Read more at redstaterant.com ...
Give a normal curve and you'll always have ugly people with which to contend.
Whatever happened to "beauty is in the eye of the beholder"?
Maybe ugly parents are less attentive parents.
It became "beauty is in the eye of the beer-holder"...
They say that the children were "ugly" and then they blame the child's ugliness for the parental lack of affection? Seems to me that the parents are far uglier than any of these poor little children.
However, these days marriage seems to have little to do with producing offspring!
MORE BEER!
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