Women are most often awarded custody of their children because of the belief that they are the best custodians of children, even though we know that women commit infanticide and abuse. Our belief represents __________.

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The belief that women are the best custodians of children is a causal theory, as it attributes custody decisions to a specific cause or explanatory factor (gender). It is not an extrinsic motivation (which refers to external rewards or punishments for behavior), an external attribution (which involves attributing a person's behavior to external factors rather than their own choices), or terror management theory (which is a psychological theory about how people cope with the fear of death).

Women Are Most Often Awarded Custody of Their Children Because