The Myth of Motherly Love

Women are more likely than men to look away from less-than-cute babies, according to a study that challenges the idea of a mother's unconditional love.
The findings might reflect an evolutionary-based need to provide limited resources only to healthy offspring, suggest the researchers, from Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts.
Director of the hospital's clinical psychopathology laboratory and an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, said in a news release from the hospital, "...it shows women are more invested in raising healthy babies and that they are more prone to reject unattractive kids."
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