A Cinderella effect in the childcare assistance provided by European grandparents.

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dc.contributor.authorDaly, Martin
dc.contributor.authorPerry, Gretchen
dc.date.accessioned2021-04-29T03:40:54Z
dc.date.available2021-04-29T03:40:54Z
dc.date.issued2021en
dc.date.updated2021-01-13T19:59:45Z
dc.description.abstractSurvey data from 36,771 European grandparents were analyzed with respect to childcare assistance that interviewees provided to their birth children versus stepchildren. Interviewees with current partners provided far more such assistance to adult children who were the progeny of both partners than to those who were stepchildren of either one's self or one's partner, but both husband and wife helped the wife's children from prior unions more than they helped the husband's children, supporting the interpretation of stepfathers' involvement as primarily an investment in the new partnership (“mating effort”) rather than in the grandchildren. Interviewees resided farther away from their adult stepchildren than from their birth children, on average, but discriminative care did not depend merely on residential proximity, being substantial regardless of whether proximity was statistically controlled. Grandmothers without current partners exhibited the greatest discrimination, with stepchild: birth child Odds Ratios of 0.10 or less in various analyses, whereas grandfathers without partners exhibited no significant discrimination. Interviewees of both sexes listed far more stepchildren, proportionately, if they had a current partner than if they were either widowed or divorced, however, which suggests that single respondents may have omitted former stepchildren with whom they had ceased to interact from their list of children, and hence that the degree to which single grandparents divest from them may be even larger than estimated.en
dc.identifier.citationPerry G, Daly M (2021). A Cinderella effect in the childcare assistance provided by European grandparents. Evolution and Human Behavior. Forthcoming.en
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2021.01.001
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10092/101840
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAll rights reserved unless otherwise stateden
dc.rights.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10092/17651en
dc.subjectalloparental careen
dc.subjectchildcareen
dc.subjectCinderella effecten
dc.subjectgrandmothersen
dc.subjectgrandparentsen
dc.subjectstepfamiliesen
dc.subject.anzsrcField of Research::17 - Psychology and Cognitive Sciences::1701 - Psychology::170113 - Social and Community Psychologyen
dc.titleA Cinderella effect in the childcare assistance provided by European grandparents.en
dc.typeJournal Articleen
uc.collegeFaculty of Arts
uc.departmentLanguage, Social and Political Sciences
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