I presume that, in the archaic environment, when a man mated with a new woman she would have encouraged him to kill offspring from a previous coupling. This explains the “wicked stepmother” myth. Yet today we insist, quite blithely, that we’re all “cool” with our stepparents.
But what you described sounds more like the origin of a "wicked stepfather" myth.
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I think men would be indifferent otherwise, and there are evolutionary reasons for them to be so from an investment perspective. It’s a case of the Lady Macbeths. Women exert immense covert psychic influence to inspire violence, aggression, and competition in men.
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