Couvade Observances

Associated Documents (1)

Main AuthorPublished YearTitle
Munroe, Robert L.The couvade: a psychological analysis

Associated Hypotheses (1)

Main AuthorHypothesis
Munroe, Robert L."The prediction . . . was that the couvade would be found in association with mother-infant sleeping arrangements, and/or matri-residence. . . . Relatively low male salience, as experienced by male children in societies characterized by a form of matri-residence [or] . . . in the presence of exclusive mother-infant sleeping arrangements . . . might lead to cross-sex identity and to a particular projective system outcome--the couvade" (40, 39)

Associated OCMs

  1. postnatal care