I believe the answer is: Divided government
With this system, the losing party could take the opposition stand from the winning party. Even though this might make the government activities become more complicated, it would prevent one party from obtaining too much power within the government.
Answer:
it is either abusive or permissive parenting
America has always stood out as the "free conutry". We are the only country to really have true freedom of speech. In the Texas vs. Johnson case, the court ruled that even something as controversial as burning the flag was still free speech. In other countries at the time, for example China, had just ruled that peaceful protesters could be killed.
I believe the answer is: increases resources available for their children.
This could even be seen in modern day mate selection. When you observe it, you would notice that men with 'high power/influence' tend to have the largest option in term of selection. This happen because high power/influence is usually correlated with ability to obtain large amount of resource (wealth/connections)
