Institute of Behavioral Sciences, University Medical School, Szigeti u. 12, H-7624, Pécs, Hungary,
Hum Nat. 1996 Sep;7(3):257-80. doi: 10.1007/BF02733397.
An evolutionary theory of socialization suggests that children from father-absent families will mature earlier, and form less-stable pair bonds, compared with those from father-present families. Using a sample of about 1,000 persons the recent study focuses on elements of father-absent children's behavior that could be better explained by a Darwinian approach than by rival social science theories. As a result of their enhanced interest in male competition, father-absent boys were found to engage in rule-breaking behavior more intensively than father-present boys. Compared with father-present children, adolescents from widowed households (both boys and girls) showed a higher intensity of various kinds of noncompliant behavior, which can be linked to their earlier maturation. School attendance, age at marriage, and marital success proved to be influenced by the children's early family experiences, governed by adapted evolutionary strategies. Father-absent daughters conceived more children than those whose fathers were present during their childhood. As evolutionary theory predicts, reproductive behavior of individuals from divorced households differed from that of individuals who grew up in widowed households. Finally, the strong correlation found between spontaneous abortion/stillbirths and family arrangement indicates that father absence has certain direct impacts on the neurohormonal processes of child development.
有一种社会化的进化论观点认为，与来自完整家庭的孩子相比，来自单亲家庭的孩子会更早成熟，形成不太稳定的伴侣关系。最近的这项研究使用了约 1000 人的样本，关注的是父亲缺失的孩子的行为特征，这些特征可以用达尔文主义来更好地解释，而不是用其他竞争的社会科学理论来解释。由于他们对男性竞争的强烈兴趣，与有父亲的男孩相比，来自单亲家庭的男孩更倾向于打破规则。与有父亲的孩子相比，来自丧偶家庭的青少年（男孩和女孩）表现出更高程度的各种不服从行为，这可以与他们更早的成熟联系起来。上学、结婚年龄和婚姻成功都被证明受到儿童早期家庭经历的影响，这些经历受到适应的进化策略的控制。在童年时期父亲不在的女儿比父亲在的女儿更容易怀孕。正如进化论所预测的那样，来自离异家庭的个体的生殖行为与来自丧偶家庭的个体不同。最后，自发流产/死胎与家庭安排之间发现的强相关性表明，父亲的缺失对儿童发展的神经激素过程有一定的直接影响。
