Father-son Contact

Associated Documents (1)

Main AuthorPublished YearTitle
Carroll, Michael P.Freud on homosexuality and the super-ego: some cross-cultural tests

Associated Hypotheses (4)

Main AuthorHypothesis
Carroll, Michael P."Societies in which a son's contact with his father is relatively high should also be societies in which homosexuality is relatively rare" (262).
Carroll, Michael P."Among those societies characterized by a relatively high degree of father-son contact, the longer the post-partum sex taboo, the less the prevalence of homosexuality" (263).
Carroll, Michael P."Societies in which a son's contact with his father is relatively low should also be societies in which an institutionalized police force is present" (264).
Carroll, Michael P."There should be an observed correlation between a relatively high prevalence of homosexuality and the presence of an institutionalized police force, but this correlation should disappear once degree of father contact is introduced as a control" (264).

Associated OCMs

  1. child care