A growing proportion of today's parents have no good internal model of parenting to guide them because their formative years were blighted by parental conflict and family breakdown.

The government said it would aim to reduce parental conflict through a programme to support interventions delivered by specialist organisations.

Curiously, nobody here suffers from cash worries, parental conflict, family crises or the slightest hint of real-world drama.

A six-fold affinity maturation then followed during therian evolution, coincident with the onset of imprinting and consistent with the theory of parental conflict.