Stepfamilies across Europe and overseas, 1550–1900

Warner, Lyndan; Erdélyi, Gabriella

doi:10.1080/1081602x.2022.2101502

The History of the Family

2022

DOI: 10.1080/1081602x.2022.2101502

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Stepfamilies across Europe and overseas, 1550–1900

Lyndan Warner

Gabriella Erdélyi

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“…Nevertheless, the current prevalence of step families is not unprecedented. Studies of both historical and agricultural populations from Europe (Pettay et al, 2020 ; Voland & Willführ, 2017 ; Warner & Erdélyi, 2022 ) and contemporary hunter-gatherers (Bentley & Mace, 2009 ; Gray & Anderson, 2010 ) suggest that ancestral societies often matched or even surpassed contemporary ones with respect to the diversity and complexity of family structure. Human parental investment has therefore likely evolved to vary adaptively with complex family compositions (Sear, 2016 ).…”

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Parental Investment by Birth Fathers and Stepfathers

Pettay

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Helle

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This study investigates the determinants of paternal investment by birth fathers and stepfathers. Inclusive fitness theory predicts higher parental investment in birth children than stepchildren, and this has consistently been found in previous studies. Here we investigate whether paternal investment varies with childhood co-residence duration and differs between stepfathers and divorced birth fathers by comparing the investment of (1) stepfathers, (2) birth fathers who are separated from the child’s mother, and (3) birth fathers who still are in a relationship with her. Path analysis was conducted using cross-sectional data from adolescents and younger adults (aged 17–19, 27–29, and 37–39 years) from the German Family Panel (pairfam), collected in 2010–2011 (n = 8326). As proxies of paternal investment, we used financial and practical help, emotional support, intimacy, and emotional closeness, as reported by the children. We found that birth fathers who were still in a relationship with the mother invested the most, and stepfathers invested the least. Furthermore, the investment of both separated fathers and stepfathers increased with the duration of co-residence with the child. However, in the case of financial help and intimacy, the effect of childhood co-residence duration was stronger in stepfathers than in separated fathers. Our findings support inclusive fitness theory and mating effort theory in explaining social behavior and family dynamics in this population. Furthermore, social environment, such as childhood co-residence was associated with paternal investment.

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Parental Investment by Birth Fathers and Stepfathers

Pettay

Danielsbacka

Helle

et al. 2023

Hum Nat

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Stepfamilies across Europe and overseas, 1550–1900

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