The_Face_of_Boo wrote:
Birds (except non-volatile birds such as chicken and peacock) were thought to be biologically monogamous , guess what? they aren't , they're just socially monogamous.
The mother's male partner is rarely the biological father of her offspring.
http://www.suite101.com/content/monogam ... ds-a286803
interesting.
my brain gets confused by ideas like this because, if we
aren't naturally monogamous then why do we try so hard to be? or vice versa - if we
are naturally monogamous then why do we have such trouble maintaining it? can both sides be somehow simultaneously true, but for different reasons?
crazy idea here, but it seems to me that a number of applicable men actually know or suspect they are not the daddies. and a certain number of men are also willing to start dating an already pregnant woman and raise the child as their own. perhaps this situation is something that people are aware of, but because of attraction and love and practicality and a desire to settle down, the possibility of not being the baby daddy is not the biggest issue.