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Oct 18, 2021 · Arranged marriage might similarly reduce fitness in humans, but only if parents regularly choose different mates for their offspring than offspring would choose for themselves. Here we report a broad ethnographic survey exploring whether parents and offspring disagree over partner choice in arranged marriages.
- Elizabeth Agey, Addison Morris, Maya Chandy, Steven J. C. Gaulin
- 7
- 2021
- 18 October 2021
we report a broad ethnographic survey exploring whether parents and offspring disagree over partner choice in arranged marriages.
May 14, 2024 · A comprehensive survey of the Human Relations Area Files database found that parents and offspring show disagreement over spouse choice in 85.4% of ethnographies analyzed, and this pattern was...
- Parental Actions Aimed at The Offspring
- Parental Actions Aimed at The Offspring’S Partner
- Parental Actions Aimed at The Couple
- Offspring’S Counteractions and Actions Aimed at The Parents
- Offspring’S Partner’S Counteractions and Actions Aimed at The Parents
- Sex Differences in Reported Actions and Counteractions
- Discrepancies Between Parents and Offspring in Reported Behavior
- Current vs. Previous Relationship Context
- Limitations and Future Research Directions
- Conclusions
The set of parental actions aimed at the offspring tended to be the largest according to reports of both the parents and the offspring. Importantly, we further expanded the set of parental actions reported by previous research (Apostolou, 2013) to include actions which are ambivalent (for example, Talking about the offspring’s partner, Giving feedb...
In the case of parental actions aimed at the offspring’s partner, the most applied parental behavior we found was disruptive, e.g., Questioning/stalking or Standoffish behavior followed by supportive actions, such as Practical/material support. Because offspring’s mate choice affects the whole family (Faulkner & Schaller, 2007), parents probe the s...
Regarding parental actions aimed at the couple, our results show that parents use supportive actions, such as Giving up on interventions/engagement, and pursue their intentions more subtly, for instance, by Offering help, and these actions are aimed only at the couple as a whole. It seems that parents do not apply such varied disruptive actions whe...
In our study, we found no instances of offspring’s extreme behavior, such as I am committed elsewhere (telling the parent that the offspring has already secretly married another person) or Suicide (a suicide attempt on the part of the offspring; Apostolou, 2015). But there could still be some specific counteractions which the offspring might deploy...
This study identified a set of actions and counteractions undertaken by the offspring’s partner, among which Spending time together with the parent was one of the most frequently observed in both the offspring’s partner and the offspring. Unlike the offspring, the offspring’s partner did not use Lying to the parent/withholding information from the ...
In our sample, mothers reported more actions or counteractions aimed at themselves, the offspring, the offspring’s partners, or the couple than the fathers did. Still, the current study is qualitative which is why any quantitative findings should be interpreted with caution. Overall, women tend to pay more attention to relations of and among their ...
Our study is unique in investigating the complementary perspectives of both the parents and the offspring. Earlier studies had shown significant levels of discrepancy between reports of the parents and the offspring. For example, parents have a tendency to report higher levels of closeness (Aquilino, 1999; Steinbach et al., 2019; Van Houdt et al., ...
It should be emphasized that this study identified more actions or counteractions related to the current as opposed to previous relationships of the offspring because the interview questions concerned mainly the current relationship. Moreover, retrospective reflection upon one’s own behavior or the behavior of others might lead to lower numbers of ...
Due to the time constraints of the method of semi-structured interviews (Seidman, 2006), most questions targeted interfering parental behavior. Therefore, the higher occurrence of counteractions by the offspring or by their partners compared to actions initiated by themselves might be biased, because participants were responding to questions about ...
To conclude, our study showed that even in an individualistic society, such as the Czech one (Hofstede, 2010), parents tend to interfere in their offspring’s relationships surprisingly during the offspring’s adulthood and in some cases even when the offspring already have their own family (some of the offspring in our sample already had children). ...
May 14, 2024 · A comprehensive survey of the Human Relations Area Files database found that parents and offspring show disagreement over spouse choice in 85.4% of ethnographies analyzed, and this pattern was consistent in every world area 4.
- Elizabeth Agey
- Sci Rep. 2024; 14: 11080.
- 10.1038/s41598-024-61467-8
- 2024
Sep 1, 2024 · If parent and offspring preferences perfectly align and parents and offspring are equally good at assessing those preferred qualities, then offspring should be willing to let their parents choose their spouse, but this does not match available evidence.
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Feb 18, 2019 · But even if parents and offspring agree over who to marry, we could expect parental control over the marital process to manifest in the exertion of control over the daughters’ partner choices.
