Conflicts to Occur within a Family Setup

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Topic: EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY
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Conflicts are bound to occur within a family setup especially between parents and their offspring. Although children are supreme to their parents, the evolutionary account predicts the two to engage in conflict (Mathias Kölliker, Stucki, Raveh, Wu, & Meunier, 2016). Parent-offspring conflict is observable in many areas. For example, during the first stage of weaning,
mothers are very close to their children and maintain very proximity. During this juncture, mothers restrain the children and initiate most of the nursing sessions. During the second stage, the infants now become independent and start launching most of the nursing bouts. In the last stage, however, the mothers begin rejecting the children by avoiding contact with them, and even they want to...