Should young ever be better off with one parent than with two

By John M. McNamara, Alasdair Houston, Z. Barta, J. Osorno. 2003

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Subfields: Demography, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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John Maynard Smith and the importance of consistency in evolutionary game theory (2006, background): “McNamara et al. (2003) illustrate this in the context of parental care.”
To Compensate or Not? Caring Parents Respond Differentially to Mate Removal and Mate Handicapping in the Burying Beetle, Nicrophorus quadripunctatus (2009, result): “Because the experiments were conducted when larvae were about 24 h old, when parental care is most intense (Fetherston et al. 1990), especially for females, we expected that handicapping would reduce the level of care.”
How do caring parents respond to mate loss? Differential response by males and females (2005, background): “Identifying the conditions under which biparental care is evolutionarily stable is one of the most persistent problems in behavioural ecology (Houston & Davies 1985; McNamara et al. 2003).”
Behavioral dynamics between caring males and females in a beetle with facultative biparental care (2004, background): “The negative correlation between male and female provisioning of food for the larvae is consistent with the game theory models on biparental care, predicting that parents should adjust their care to the amount provided by the mate (McNamara et al., 2003).”
Sexual conflict and life histories (2006, background): “Houston, A. I. & Davies, N. B. 1985.”
Cooperation and Coordination in Socially Monogamous Birds: Moving Away From a Focus on Sexual Conflict (2019, background): “When two parents are jointly providing care to their offspring, it is predicted theoretically that both parents are, to an extent investing with a view to their own interests, reducing the overall level of care relative to a uniparental care system (McNamara et al., 2003).”
Current brood size and residual reproductive value predict offspring desertion in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides (2009, background): “…then frequency dependent, being contingent on the behavior of the partner (e.g., Székely et al. 1996; BalshineEarn and Earn 1997; Barta et al. 2002; McNamara et al. 2003; Trumbo 2007), and the behavior of the opposite sex in the wider population (e.g., Székely et al. 1996; Balshine-Earn and Earn…”
Negotiation over offspring care—how should parents respond to each other's efforts? (2006, unknown): “In other words, negotiation leads to lower levels of effort at equilibrium (see McNamara et al. 1999, 2003).”
Theoretical foundations of parental care (2012, background): “When parents negotiate, the overall level of care offspring receive is expected to be less than that in the absence of negotiation (McNamara et al. 2003).”