Kinship structures and survival: Maternal mortality on the Croatian–Bosnian border 1750–1898

Hammel, E. A.; Gullickson, Aaron

doi:10.1080/0032472042000213703

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“…Our hypothesis rests firmly on the repeated findings of deceitful verbal assurance given by mothers to putative fathers [32,35,45], and future Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging evaluations could be able to examine whether the same cognitive process domains are involved in both "manipulative" actions. In a larger picture, it also conforms to the slight tendency towards a larger use of indirect aggression, e.g., gossiping, among females compared to males [68,69] and to the repeatedly observed, and sometimes quite large negative effects from reproductive competition among human females [70][71][72][73] -even within kin groups [74][75][76][77]. In sum, the "manipulative mother hypothesis" alone, or in some combination with the "paternal uncertainty hypothesis" and the Perry and Daly (2017) model, might account for many of the results that hitherto have been hard to explain parsimoniously.…”

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Do mothers also “manipulate” grandparental care?

Busch

Olaisen

Bruksås

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Paternity uncertainty has proven to be a robust ultimate hypothesis for predicting the higher investment in grandchildren observed among maternal grandparents compared to that of the paternal grandparents. Yet, the proximate mechanisms for generating such preferred biases in grandparental investment remain unclear. Here we address two different questions for better understanding the proximate mechanisms leading to the observed bias in grandparental investments: (i) is there a larger emphasis on resemblance descriptions (between grandchildren and grandparent) among daughters than among sons, and (ii) do mothers really believe that their offspring more resemble their parents, i.e., the children’s grandparents, than fathers do? From questioning grandparents, we find that daughters more often and more intensely than sons express opinions about resemblance between their children and their parents, i.e., about grandchild-grandparent resemblance. Moreover, daughters also seem to believe that their children more resemble their grandmother than sons do. The latter is however not the case for beliefs about children’s resemblance to grandfathers. In sum, our results suggest that even in a population of Norwegians, strongly influenced by ideas concerning gender equality, there exist a sexual bias among parents in opinions and descriptions about grandparent-grandchild resemblance. This resemblance bias, which echoes that of mothers biasing resemblance descriptions of newborns to putative fathers, does not seem to represent a conscious manipulation. Yet, it could be instrumental for influencing grandparental investments. We believe that a “manipulative mother hypothesis” might parsimoniously account for many of the results relating to biased alloparenting hitherto not entirely explained by “the paternity uncertainty hypothesis”.

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Do mothers also “manipulate” grandparental care?

Busch

Olaisen

Bruksås

et al. 2018

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“…This method has been used in previous studies and is thought not to deflate standard errors (c.f. Hammel & Gullickson, 2004).…”

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“…Although the later definition undoubtedly captures non-maternal deaths, it has been shown to mirror maternal mortality trends based on cause of death data for an historical population (Andersson et al, 2000). Furthermore, this method is often used as an approximation of true maternal mortality (Hammel & Gullickson, 2004;Hogberg & Brostrom, 1985). It is difficult to know exactly how many non-maternal deaths would have been misclassified as maternal deaths, but maternal deaths according to official statistics from 1875-1902 account for on average 60% of the family reconstitution figures (see Figure 4).…”

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Trends and risk factors of maternal mortality in late-nineteenth-century Netherlands

Ory

Poppel

2013

The History of the Family

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Using family reconstitution data from the Dutch provinces of Groningen, Drenthe, and Zeeland, trends and risk factors of maternal death from 1846 to 1902 are studied. Findings confirm other studies of maternal mortality trends for the Netherlands in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and show that rates were already steadily decreasing in the midnineteenth century. The role of biological and social risk factors including age, parity, birth interval, social class, season, and year of giving birth were also explored. Among biological factors we find an increased risk of maternal death for short birth intervals, late maternal age, high and low parity, multiple gestations, and stillbirths. Social factors associated with increase risk are belonging to the skilled working class, being a farmer, giving birth in winter or spring, and giving birth in earlier years. We also explore trends in the data which reveal directions for future research.

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“…In a study of the history of childbirth in the period 1850Á1950 in Europe, the USA, Australia, and New Zealand, Loudon (1992a) found that the quality of assistance mothers received during childbirth was one of the main determinants of maternal mortality. Finally, more recent historical scholarship has drawn attention to the significance of socio-economic determinants, such as household structure and kinship networks, on maternal mortality in Croatia in the period 1750Á1898 (Hammel and Gullickson 2004).…”

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Effects of nutritional stress and socio-economic status on maternal mortality in six German villages, 1766–1863

Scalone

2013

Population Studies

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We examined the effects of nutritional stress on maternal mortality arising from short-term economic crises in eighteenth-century and nineteenth-century Germany, and how these effects might have been mitigated by socio-economic status. Historical data from six German villages were used to assess how socio-economic conditions and short-term economic crises following poor harvests may have affected maternal mortality. The results show that 1 year after an increase in grain prices the risk of maternal death increased significantly amongst the wives of those working outside the agricultural sector, and more so than for the wives of those working on farms. Nutritional crises seem to have had a significantly stronger impact on maternal mortality in the period 2-6 weeks after childbirth, when mothers were most prone to infections and indirect, obstetrical causes of maternal death. The findings indicate that both nutritional stress and socio-economic factors contributed to maternal mortality.

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Kinship structures and survival: Maternal mortality on the Croatian–Bosnian border 1750–1898

Abstract: This is an analysis of maternal survival of up to 13,202 mothers following 56,546 births in south central Slavonia (Croatia)

Cited by 14 publications

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Do mothers also “manipulate” grandparental care?

Do mothers also “manipulate” grandparental care?

Trends and risk factors of maternal mortality in late-nineteenth-century Netherlands

Effects of nutritional stress and socio-economic status on maternal mortality in six German villages, 1766–1863

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