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	Rules 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
Williams, Thomas Rhys	1972	". . . as industrialization and urbanization occur . . . 1) the number of parent surrogates is progressively reduced, 2) kin group demands are increasingly replaced by demands made on individuals by technological institutions . . . 3) grandparents come to be unable to serve as guides for children to the ethos and eidos of a culture" (155)	Supported	4	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Sear, Rebecca	2008	Grandfathers will have significantly less effect on child survival than grandmothers (10).	Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author