From: john@jfeldredge.com   
      
   On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 10:26:30 -0600, Suzanne Blom wrote:   
      
   > "David Friedman"  wrote in message   
   > news:ddfr-9A2D87.23393330112008@newsfarm.ams.highwinds-media.com...   
   >>   
   >> But seduce and abandon is a more attractive strategy for males than for   
   >> females, reproductively speaking.   
   >   
   > Ah? I would think that dropping the kid off somewhere quick would be   
   > attractive for a woman as well.  The femme fatale is not currently in   
   > vogue, but seems to be a viable strategy.  In Medea, one of the oldest   
   > tales we have, the woman kills the kids to get back at the man.   
      
   Killing the kids in order to punish the father may be to the woman's   
   personal advantage, but it is to her reproductive disadvantage, in that   
   it reduces the number of her descendants.   
      
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