There is a culprit. It’s name is the “baby schema.” This might sound like some sort of bad CSI episode but its an actual psychological condition that most human beings are susceptible to. The baby schema refers to a set of infantile physical features such as a large head, round face and big eyes that motivates a sense of care-taking among individuals and turns on the evolutionary trait of fostering offspring survival. It’s simply biology. We love those little cuddly bundles of joy too much to allow anything to happen to them.
So end of day, make sure you have kiddos who are big-headed, wide-eyed angels so people will naturally be protective around them. Just make sure that they don’t turn into big-headed people because then we have a whole different set of issues. Cute babies win at everything…including stopping all men folks from ever hitting on a lady