If you want to know if your husband will cheat, you may want to take a close look at your father-in-law。
According to a new study cheating really does run in the family, at least as far as men are concerned。
The research confirming the old adage 'like father like son’ will come as no surprise to many a woman scorned...including the wives of womanising celebrities who had cheating fathers such as Tiger Woods and Ryan Giggs。
The study carried out by a team of Czech scientists concluded that, while men and women both had affairs, men were more likely to stray if their fathers had been unfaithful as they were growing up。
Presenting his research, Jan Havlicek told a conference of the European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association, that daughters were not affected in the same way by their mothers' infidelity。
Mr Havlicek said as boys grew up by observing the world around them what was appropriate and what they could get away with。
Their father was an obvious example to follow for good or for bad。
The scientists based at Charles University in Prague, recruited 86 couples for the research。
They questioned the men and women individually and in confidence about their relationships, their attitudes towards sex, their family backgrounds and their infidelities。
Martie Hasleton, an evolutionary psychologist from the University of California in Los Angeles, said the fact that daughters did not appear to be as affected by parental infidelity in the same way as sons was explained by genetics。
She said good-looking fathers tend to have good-looking sons and those men tend to have more opportunity to cheat。
Attractive daughters of attractive mothers would behave differently, she said。
'Girls who are more attractive aren't necessarily going to be unfaithful - they're probably just going to get a higher-quality mate in the first place.'
(Read by Renee Haines. Renee Haines is a journalist at the China Daily Website。)
如果你想知道自己的丈夫会不会出轨，你可以考察一下你的公公。
一项新研究发现，出轨确实可以“世代相传”，至少对于男人是如此。
研究证实了“有其父必有其子”这句老话，对于许多遭背叛的女人而言，包括那些风流成性的名人的妻子在内，这一结果并不令人意外。像“老虎”伍兹和瑞恩•吉格斯这些出轨名人的父亲都曾出轨。
由一队捷克科学家开展的这一研究得出结论说，尽管男人和女人都会出轨，但如果男人在成长过程中父亲有外遇的话，那么男人出轨的可能性更大。
简•哈夫利切克在欧洲人类行为和进化协会的会议上提交他的研究时说，女儿不会因妈妈的不忠行为而受到同样的影响。
哈夫利切克先生说，男孩在成长过程中，通过观察周围的世界得知什么样的行为是合适的，以及他们可以做什么坏事而不会受到惩罚。
他们的父亲显然是一个跟随的榜样，不管是好榜样还是坏榜样。
布拉格查尔斯大学的科学家征募了86对夫妇作为研究对象。
他们私底下单独调查了每位男性和女性，询问了他们的感情关系、对性的态度、家庭背景和出轨情况。
来自洛杉矶加州大学的进化心理学家玛蒂•哈斯雷顿说，女儿并不会像儿子一样受到父母不忠的影响，这一事实可以用遗传学来解释。
她说，英俊的父亲通常会生出英俊的儿子，而这些男性一般会有更多的机会出轨。
漂亮妈妈生出的漂亮女儿则会有不同的行为。
她说：“漂亮女孩并不一定会出轨，她们很可能最注重的是找一个优秀的伴侣。”
