A Cross-Cultural Summary: Pregnancy

Societies desiring children more will tend to have patrilineal or double-descent kin groups rather than matrilineal (282, 190).

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Fisher's Exact Test	Marginally Supported	p = .087	Phi = .294	Two-tailed

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Desire For Children	Association	Conception
Kin Group	Association	Rule Of Descent

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Davis, William N.	1964	"In short, those kin groups that are generally high in drunkenness are also prone to gratify strongly the needs of their young children" (47)	Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Sear, Rebecca	2008	The death of the mother will be strongly associated with higher child mortality (5).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Sear, Rebecca	2008	The presence of grandmothers will predict lower child mortality rates (10).	Some support	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Davis, William N.	1964	"In short, these results indicate that relatively speaking, bilateral and cognatic kin groups rely more heavily upon an economy that presumably forces the father to leave his home for long periods of time . . . thus encouraging them [children] to adopt feminine modes of behavior" (39)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Murdock, George Peter	1959	Nasal consonants, non-nasal labial stops, and low vowels will the sounds most frequently used by young children to denote the mother and father (1).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author