Abstract Among the Karo of Indonesia, the frequency of matrilateral cross-cousin (impal) marriage has declined in recent decades. We conducted a vignette experiment to assess the …
Adoption is sometimes considered paradoxical from an evolutionary perspective because the costs spent supporting an adopted child would be better spent on rearing one's own. Kin …
Adoption has been an important historical Eastern Asian family strategy to ensure family continuity. Adopting children out of the household can, however, also be seen as a strategy …
T Riswick, YH Hsieh - Demographic research, 2020 - JSTOR
BACKGROUND Many studies have neglected family processes that take place in more complex households in non-Western societies, while the position in the sibling set of a given …
H Dong, S Kurosu - The History of the Family, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Adoption was an important strategy for early-modern Japanese families to function and continue. This study is the first to systematically examine whether survival chances differ …
Little is known about health outcomes after adoption in historical non-Western settings and previous studies have found contradictory results of the influence of adoption on mortality …
G Kushnick, DMT Fessler, F Zuska - researchgate.net
Abstract Among the Karo of Indonesia, the frequency of matrilateral cross-cousin (impal) marriage has declined in recent decades. We conducted a vignette experiment to assess the …