Does paternal uncertainty explain discriminative grandparental solicitude? A cross-cultural study in Greece and Germany

Pashos, Alexander

doi:10.1016/s1090-5138(99)00030-6

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“…Consistent with predictions based on paternity uncertainty, differences in solicitude between maternal and paternal grandparents have been found in historical (VOLAND and BEISE 2002) and modern societies (EULER and WEITZEL 1996;EULER et al 2001;MICHALSKI and SHACKELFORD 2005;PASHOS 2000). Typically, maternal grandmothers invest most in their grandchildren followed by maternal grandfathers, and paternal grandmothers, with paternal grandfathers investing least (EISENBERG 1988;HOFFMAN 1979-1980, KAHANA and KAHANA 1970ROSSI and ROSSI 1990).…”

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confidence: 61%

Contact frequencies between grandparents and grandchildren in a modern society: Estimates of the impact of paternity uncertainty

Pollet¹,

Nettle²,

Nelissen³

2006

Journal of Cultural and Evolutionary Psychology

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Abstract. Evolutionary theory suggests that maternal grandparents will invest more in their grandchildren than paternal grandparents, due to the difference between the certainty of maternity and the uncertainty of paternity. Tests of this prediction have tended to use retrospective ratings by grandchildren rather than self-reported behaviour by grandparents. Using a large-scale dataset from the Netherlands, we show significant differences between maternal and paternal grandparents in terms of frequencies of contact with their grandchildren, while controlling for a wide range of other variables. Our results show biases consistent with the paternity uncertainty hypothesis.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 61%

Contact frequencies between grandparents and grandchildren in a modern society: Estimates of the impact of paternity uncertainty

Pollet¹,

Nettle²,

Nelissen³

2006

Journal of Cultural and Evolutionary Psychology

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“…The number of other grandparents still alive might also make a difference with respect of grandparental involvement. It has been suggested that grandparental involvement decreases if a grandchild has more than one grandparent alive but the theory has not gained support from previous studies (Euler and Weitzel 1996;Pashos 2000). From these presumptions we may form a dilution effect hypothesis which states that the number of grandchildren and the number of grandparents have a dilution effect on grandparental involvement.…”

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Adolescent grandchildren’s perceptions of grandparents’ involvement in UK: an interpretation from life course and evolutionary theory perspective

Danielsbacka

Tanskanen

2012

Eur J Ageing

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In this article, we study grandparental involvement from the viewpoint of evolutionary theory and sociological life course perception. We have used 'the Involved Grandparenting and Child Well-Being 2007' survey, which is the first nationally representative sample of British and Welsh adolescents aged 11-16 (n = 1,488). First, we explore with the descriptive statistics the amount of grandparental involvement reported by adolescents. The result follows the predicted pattern: maternal grandparent is reported to involve in a grandchild's life the most, second maternal grandfather, third paternal grandmother and the last paternal grandfather. Second, we focus more closely on separate grandparents and show with four linear regression models which factors are connected to each grandparent's involvement. Grandchild's age, grandparent's health, grandparent's labour force participation and distance between a grandparent and a grandchild were factors that have similar effects in relation to all grandparents. Marital status mattered only for grandfathers, whereas family structure of a grandchild has opposite effects in relation to maternal and paternal grandparents. Grandchild's sex, grandparent's age, the number of grandchildren and the number of living grandparents all mattered, but only with respect to some grandparents. The study shows that it is advantageous to merge sociological and evolutionary viewpoints when studying a grandparental involvement in a modern society.

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“…Finally, Pashos (2000) found that rural Greeks reported having received more childcare prior to age seven from PGMs than from MGMs, which is again unsurprising. (Urban Greeks reported the reverse.)…”

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Matrilateral Bias in Human Grandmothering

Daly

Perry

2017

Front. Sociol.

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Does paternal uncertainty explain discriminative grandparental solicitude? A cross-cultural study in Greece and Germany

Cited by 126 publications

References 16 publications

Contact frequencies between grandparents and grandchildren in a modern society: Estimates of the impact of paternity uncertainty

Contact frequencies between grandparents and grandchildren in a modern society: Estimates of the impact of paternity uncertainty

Adolescent grandchildren’s perceptions of grandparents’ involvement in UK: an interpretation from life course and evolutionary theory perspective

Matrilateral Bias in Human Grandmothering

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