Do parents favor their adoptive or biological children? Predictions from kin selection and compensatory models

• Main Authors: SEGAL, Nancy L., LI, Norman P., GRAHAM, Jamie L., MILLER, Steven A.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2015
• Subjects: Kin selection; Compensatory mode; ; Adoption; Virtual twins; Parenting; Stepparenting; Family, Life Course, and Society; Social Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1885; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3142/viewcontent/1_s20_S1090513815000252_main.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Evolutionary reasoning (Kin Selection Theory) predicts less favorable behaviors directed by parents toward their unrelated children, relative to their biologically related children. By extension, it may be argued that parents should also have less favorable perceptions of the intellectual, personali...