The stepchild risk (Zimmer)
October 28th, 2007 | Published in Biology, Morality, Parenting, Quotes
It turns out that being a stepchild is the strongest risk factor for child abuse yet found. And a child is 40 to 100 times more likely to be killed by a stepparent than by a biological parent.
–Carl Zimmer, Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea, p. 280-281