Baby Wars Parenthood and Family Strife

Explodes the nuclear family once and for all, revealing the unacknowledged conflicts at the heart of even the happiest households. Fatherhood, motherhood, nurturing and care -- beneath these deep human instincts lies another that is still deeper -- the will to ensure our own genetic survival at the expense of others. From a series of instantly recognizable everyday fictional situations, Baby Wars finds a comparable competition at work within the family. It combines the most up-to-date understanding of the mechanism of reproduction with an unrivaled eye for the complexities -- and apparent perversities -- of human behavior.