Email this article Characteristics of selfishness in married men and married women
- Authors: Sinelnikov A.B.1
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Affiliations:
- Lomonosov Moscow State University
- Issue: No 1 (2025)
- Pages: 4-22
- Section: Sociological Sciences
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/1992-2892/article/view/380099
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.21064/WinRS.2025.1.1
- EDN: https://elibrary.ru/edzmzh
- ID: 380099
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Married men show selfishness in ignoring the interests of their wives and children. This often leads to the breakdown of families. After a divorce, these men donot take care of the children from theirex-wives. Some of them create new families, which often breakup for the same reason. Othersdo not create any new families, so as not to limit their personal independence. Married women tend to be selfish in ignoring the interests of their husbands. As a result, their families fall apart. However, even if theirex-husbands were good fathers, these women generallydo not believe that their own behavior harmed the interests of their children. They are convinced that they can either properly raise and financially provide for children without a father, or find them a stepfather, who, in the opinion of these women, will be better than their own father. Ex-husbands often agree with this opinion of their ex-wives because it frees them, as fathers, from caring for their children. Selfishness takes different forms in the family life of men and women. However, any form of selfishness destroys families. A thorough study of this problem is necessary. Overcoming mass selfishness is one of the necessary conditions for overcoming the demographic crisis.
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A. B. Sinelnikov
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Email: sinalexander@yandex.ru
Dr. Sc. (Sociology), Associate Professor, Professor at the Department of Sociology of Family and Demography Moscow, Russian Federation
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