Infidelity, a great family tradition?

It appears that being unfaithful can be a trait learned from you dad according to a piece of research carried out in the Czech Republic. The study carried out by a team of Czech scientists concluded that, while men and women both had affairs, men were more likely to stray if their fathers had been unfaithful as they were growing up.

Presenting his research, Jan Havlicek told a conference of the European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association, that daughters were not affected in the same way by their mothers' infidelity

Mr Havlicek said as boys grew up by observing the world around them what was appropriate and what they could get away with.  Their father was an obvious example to follow for good or for bad.

Attractive daughters of attractive mothers would behave differently, she said.

'Girls who are more attractive aren't necessarily going to be unfaithful - they're probably just going to get a higher-quality mate in the first place.

Obvious examples would be George Best and his son Calum or Tiger Woods and his dad.

Men and women are looking for different things in relationships and so we would expect men and women to use their attractiveness in different ways; men to get sexual variety, and women to get the best partner possible and a good dad for their kids.’

The Czech research backs the idea that men’s affairs are more motivated by sex then women’s.

Mr Havlicek and his team found that whether or not a man was satisfied and happy in his main relationship had no effect on the likelihood that he would stray.

Men usually have affairs because they want sex and a greater number of sexual partners, not because they are fed up with their wives, he said.

Roger Motion

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