The motivating question for the Quinlan & Quinlan article is how does child development associate with parenting practices that in turn may develop cultural patterns related to insecurity and aggression? When there is often environmental risk parents respond by adjusting their behaviors. If not able to reduce or eliminate these risk the parents may focus more on mating rather than parenting. Shifting parental efforts may lead to more offspring and a low-intensity childcare creating a potential trajectory for the child or children to be geared in the direction of risky behaviors in uncertain environments. This behavior doesn’t just fade away easily as the child grows up but such experiences can be good indicators of predicted adult behaviors.
