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UNASSIGNED: The authors study matrilineal settings in rural Malawi, a southeast African country, to assess if women experience better marital outcomes in the presence of daughters and if so whether daughter preference plays a role.
UNASSIGNED: A provocative finding in family sociology is that couples with sons experience better marital outcomes relative to those with daughters. Sociologists contend that these marital benefits are attributable to the gender system fostering greater closeness between fathers and sons, a preference for sons, or economic, cultural, and social incentives for fathers to invest more in unions that have produced sons. Extrapolating these arguments beyond son-inspired marital benefits in patriarchal settings suggests that the reverse process-daughter-inspired marital benefits-could prevail in matrilineal contexts.
UNASSIGNED: The authors analyze three rounds of the nationally representative Malawi Demographic and Health Survey. They estimate three series of parity-specific, multivariable logistic regression models to assess the associations between child sex composition and marital outcomes (two forms of relationship abuse and polygyny) and model each outcome among the full sample of women with one to four children and control for number of children, thus conveying the average effect of sex composition across parities.
UNASSIGNED: Women with daughters-particularly women with only daughters-in predominately matrilineal, rural communities in the central and southern regions of Malawi are more likely to be in monogamous versus polygynous unions and are less likely to have experienced emotionally abusive and controlling behaviors. We find little evidence that women and men explicitly prefer or pursue daughters.
UNASSIGNED: The study shows that a matrilineal gender system can influence marital dynamics in the presence of daughters even without fostering an overwhelming preference for them.
UNASSIGNED: A provocative finding in family sociology is that couples with sons experience better marital outcomes relative to those with daughters. Sociologists contend that these marital benefits are attributable to the gender system fostering greater closeness between fathers and sons, a preference for sons, or economic, cultural, and social incentives for fathers to invest more in unions that have produced sons. Extrapolating these arguments beyond son-inspired marital benefits in patriarchal settings suggests that the reverse process-daughter-inspired marital benefits-could prevail in matrilineal contexts.
UNASSIGNED: The authors analyze three rounds of the nationally representative Malawi Demographic and Health Survey. They estimate three series of parity-specific, multivariable logistic regression models to assess the associations between child sex composition and marital outcomes (two forms of relationship abuse and polygyny) and model each outcome among the full sample of women with one to four children and control for number of children, thus conveying the average effect of sex composition across parities.
UNASSIGNED: Women with daughters-particularly women with only daughters-in predominately matrilineal, rural communities in the central and southern regions of Malawi are more likely to be in monogamous versus polygynous unions and are less likely to have experienced emotionally abusive and controlling behaviors. We find little evidence that women and men explicitly prefer or pursue daughters.
UNASSIGNED: The study shows that a matrilineal gender system can influence marital dynamics in the presence of daughters even without fostering an overwhelming preference for them.
摘要：
■作者研究了马拉维农村的母系环境，一个非洲东南部的国家,评估女性在有女儿的情况下是否会经历更好的婚姻结果，如果是，女儿偏好是否起作用。
家庭社会学中的一个挑衅性发现是，有儿子的夫妇比有女儿的夫妇婚姻结局更好。社会学家认为，这些婚姻福利归因于性别制度促进了父子之间的更紧密关系，对儿子的偏爱，或经济，文化,以及社会激励措施，让父亲更多地投资于生育儿子的工会。在父权制环境中，将这些论点推广到儿子启发的婚姻利益之外，这表明相反的过程-女儿启发的婚姻利益-可能在母系环境中盛行。
■作者分析了三轮全国代表性的马拉维人口与健康调查。他们估计了三个特定的奇偶校验系列，多变量逻辑回归模型来评估儿童性别构成与婚姻结果（两种形式的关系虐待和一夫多妻制）之间的关联，并在有一到四个孩子和控制孩子数量的全样本妇女中对每个结果进行建模。从而传达了跨党派性别构成的平均影响。
■有女儿的妇女-特别是只有女儿的妇女-主要是母系，马拉维中部和南部地区的农村社区更有可能一夫一妻制而不是一夫一妻制工会，并且不太可能经历过情感虐待和控制行为。我们发现几乎没有证据表明男女明确喜欢或追求女儿。
■该研究表明，母系性别制度可以在女儿在场的情况下影响婚姻动态，即使没有培养对女儿的压倒性偏好。
家庭社会学中的一个挑衅性发现是，有儿子的夫妇比有女儿的夫妇婚姻结局更好。社会学家认为，这些婚姻福利归因于性别制度促进了父子之间的更紧密关系，对儿子的偏爱，或经济，文化,以及社会激励措施，让父亲更多地投资于生育儿子的工会。在父权制环境中，将这些论点推广到儿子启发的婚姻利益之外，这表明相反的过程-女儿启发的婚姻利益-可能在母系环境中盛行。
■作者分析了三轮全国代表性的马拉维人口与健康调查。他们估计了三个特定的奇偶校验系列，多变量逻辑回归模型来评估儿童性别构成与婚姻结果（两种形式的关系虐待和一夫多妻制）之间的关联，并在有一到四个孩子和控制孩子数量的全样本妇女中对每个结果进行建模。从而传达了跨党派性别构成的平均影响。
■有女儿的妇女-特别是只有女儿的妇女-主要是母系，马拉维中部和南部地区的农村社区更有可能一夫一妻制而不是一夫一妻制工会，并且不太可能经历过情感虐待和控制行为。我们发现几乎没有证据表明男女明确喜欢或追求女儿。
■该研究表明，母系性别制度可以在女儿在场的情况下影响婚姻动态，即使没有培养对女儿的压倒性偏好。
