Influence of parental death on child mortality and the phenomenon of the stepfamily in western Bohemia in 1708-1834
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F22%3A10436147" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/22:10436147 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=rGC6xxOrDd" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=rGC6xxOrDd</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1081602X.2021.1986738" target="_blank" >10.1080/1081602X.2021.1986738</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Influence of parental death on child mortality and the phenomenon of the stepfamily in western Bohemia in 1708-1834
Original language description
The aim of this study is to examine, to what extent the chance of survival of children under 5 years of age was influenced by a biological parent's death in the region of western Bohemia. Young children's mortality is considered in relation to family structure, since persons raising the child in its early childhood significantly influenced the quality of child care. Given the gender-specific division of labour in pre-modern families we focus chiefly on the possible different effects of a mother's death or a father's death. In addition, we try to establish whether the negative impact of a biological parent's death could be compensated by the entrance of a stepparent. For the purposes of this analysis we used the Cox proportional hazards mixed-effect model. Our research has shown that although maternal death had more serious consequences compared to paternal death, especially if it occurred in the child's first year of life, even paternal death increased child mortality since the need to assume the paternal role prevented the surviving mother from taking optimum care of her children. The entrance of a stepparent in general increased children's chance of survival although in the case of stepmothers the positive effect was limited and could mainly be observed among children over 3. In contrast, our research has shown that there was no major difference in survival chances resulting from the presence of a biological father vs. a stepfather, an interesting result demonstrating that in the functioning of the pre-modern family biological ties were of only relative importance.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50402 - Demography
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA17-11983S" target="_blank" >GA17-11983S: Testing the "grandmother hypothesis": Transgenerational effect on reproduction based on parish registers from the 17th -19th century Bohemia</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
History of the Family
ISSN
1081-602X
e-ISSN
1873-5398
Volume of the periodical
27
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
19
Pages from-to
434-452
UT code for WoS article
000719754700001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85119320212