Mother-child Exclusive Sleeping

Associated Documents (2)

Main AuthorPublished YearTitle
Paige, Jeffery M.The politics of reproductive ritual
Burton, Roger V.The absent father and cross-sex identity

Associated Hypotheses (3)

Main AuthorHypothesis
Paige, Jeffery M.Patrilocality, polygyny, postpartum taboo, and exclusive mother-child sleeping arrangements are positively associated with sex segregation practices (243).
Burton, Roger V."In societies with maximum conflict in sex identity, e.g., where a boy initially sleeps exclusively with his mother and where the domestic unit is patrilocal and hence controlled by men, there will be initiation rites at puberty which function to resolve this conflict in identity" (112-113)
Burton, Roger V."Where the female status is seen as privileged both in infancy and in childhood . . . a man would have a strong optative feminine identity and the society should provide him some means to act out symbolically at least, the female role" (113)

Associated OCMs

  1. sleeping
  2. infant care