Childfree: un esempio di quando e perché la cultura va contro le naturali spinte biologiche
Journal title RIVISTA DI STUDI FAMILIARI
Author/s Antonio Comparini
Publishing Year 2007 Issue 2007/1
Language Italian Pages 12 P. 112-123 File size 419 KB
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The article proposes an evolutionary hypothesis of the childfree phenol-menon. Biological evolution has provided the human mind with mecha-nisms that induce to strive for specific biological goals, the achievement of which in the evolution of our species was connected with reproduction, the major biological goal. Our ancestors lived in small cooperative groups of hunters-gatherers; in such a context the mental mechanisms for achie-ving the goal of social approval and integration through social imitation and conformism were selected together with others. Our biological evolu-tion has stopped and the goals are still the same as they were once. On the other hand, cultural evolution has produced drastic changes in our way of life which now hinder the simultaneous achievement of goals such as social approval and parenthood.
Antonio Comparini, Childfree: un esempio di quando e perché la cultura va contro le naturali spinte biologiche in "RIVISTA DI STUDI FAMILIARI" 1/2007, pp 112-123, DOI: