Assortative mating, differential fertility and abnormal pregnancy outcome
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C G Mascie-Taylor1, J L Boldsen
1Department of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge.
Annals of Human Biology
|May 1, 1988
Abstract:
This study examines the relationship between spousal likeness in stature and two measures of reproductive success: the number of live-born children and the frequency of abnormal pregnancies, in a large British national sample. The analyses showed that as the husband-wife height difference increases so does the probability of having an abnormal pregnancy outcome. Increasing spousal similarity for height associates with increasing numbers of live-born children even after correcting for parental age, social and regional differences.
Keywords:
AnthropometryBiological CharacteristicsBiologyComparative StudiesDemographic FactorsDeveloped CountriesDifferential FertilityEuropeFamily And HouseholdFamily CharacteristicsFamily SizeFertilityHusband-wife ComparisonsMarriageMate SelectionMeasurementNorthern EuropeNuptialityPopulationPopulation DynamicsPregnancyPregnancy OutcomesReproductionResearch MethodologyStudiesUnited Kingdom