A Cross-Cultural Summary: Pregnancy

Societies desiring children more will tend to have severe punishment for abortion (282, 295).

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Fisher's Exact Test	Marginally Supported	p = .084	Phi = .358	Two-tailed

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Desire For Children	Association	Conception
Abortion Punishment	Association	Abortion And Infanticide

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Textor, Robert B.	1967	In societies with high rates of punishment for abortion, polygynous marriage will be occasional or common (242, 295).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Textor, Robert B.	1967	The permission of extramarital sexual relationships will be more common in societies where the severity of punishment for abortion is absent or low (393, 295).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Levinson, David	1981	Socialization of children involving violence will be positively associated with frequent wifebeating (194)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Ninkova, Velina	2024	Coercion and corporal punishment will likely affect the behavior of children.	Partial Support Claimed	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Minturn, Leigh	1982	The reasons for infanticide are similar to the reasons for abortion (p. 73).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author