Paternity Uncertainty and Parent-Offspring Conflict Explain Restrictions on Female Premarital Sex across Societies
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60076658%3A12310%2F22%3A43904654" target="_blank" >RIV/60076658:12310/22:43904654 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12110-022-09426-y" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12110-022-09426-y</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12110-022-09426-y" target="_blank" >10.1007/s12110-022-09426-y</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Paternity Uncertainty and Parent-Offspring Conflict Explain Restrictions on Female Premarital Sex across Societies
Original language description
Although norms of premarital sex vary cross-culturally, the sexuality of adolescent girls has been consistently more restricted than that of adolescent boys. Three major theories that attempt to explain restrictions on female premarital sex (FPS) concern male, female, and parental control. These competing theories have not been tested against each other cross-culturally. In this study, we do this using a sample of 128 nonindustrial societies and socioecological predictors capturing extramarital sex, paternal care, female status, sex ratio, parental control over a daughter's mate choice, residence, and marriage transactions, while also controlling for phylogenetic non-independence across societies. We found that multiple parties benefit from restrictions on FPS. Specifically, FPS is more restricted in societies intolerant of extramarital sex and where men transfer property to their children (male control), as well as where marriages are arranged by parents (parental control). Both paternity uncertainty (partitioned among marital fidelity and paternal investment) and parent-offspring conflict (prompting parents to control their daughter's sexuality) were identified as possible mechanisms of FPS restrictions. The evidence for female control is ambiguous, mainly because it can be equally well interpreted as both male control and parental control, and because fathers, rather than mothers, are often the primary decision makers about a daughter's mate choice. Our results also emphasize the importance of social roles, rather than stereotyped sex roles, as a more useful approach to understanding the evolution of FPS restrictions.
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
10602 - Biology (theoretical, mathematical, thermal, cryobiology, biological rhythm), Evolutionary biology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA18-23889S" target="_blank" >GA18-23889S: Ecological and geographical determinants of modern human diversification: a phylogenetic approach on global and local scales</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
Human Nature
ISSN
1045-6767
e-ISSN
1936-4776
Volume of the periodical
33
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
21
Pages from-to
215-235
UT code for WoS article
000801196100001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85131067374