Men prefer kids who look exactly like them

Men prefer their children to be photocopies of them, says counselling psychologist Mary Gacheru.

“It delights a man when he gets that ‘photocopy child’,” she says. “At the heart of it, that man is not certain whether a child is his or not. Because only a woman knows for sure who the father of her child is. So when he gets a child that looks exactly like him, especially if it’s a boy, then at least he can be sure that it’s his ‘work’.”