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I'm surprised that was so downvoted too.
Perhaps I should rephrase it: I don't want to assert that it would've been objectively better for them to not give up the children. But can someone explain to me why it's MORE rational to give up in this situation?
I think it's my fault. I posted a... rather unpopular article about compromise.
I agree with your hawk/brinksmanship analysis of the strategy. I've found in life that 'the easy way out' is usually not so easy. I'm still trying to break it down into game-theory language appropriate for this site, however.
By calling the downvotes your fault, it seems that you're asserting that your post is a causal ancestor of the downvotes, which is a bit off, I think. I'd guess that the downvotes of your post and the downvotes of jwdink's comment have a common cause (that being a certain utility-maximizing mindset and/or set of preferences), but are not otherwise causally related.