NDLI: Variation in juvenile dependence : Helping behavior among Maya children

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Author	Kramer, Karen L.
Copyright Year	2002
Abstract	Notable in cross-cultural comparisons is the variable span of time between when children become economically self-sufficient and when they initiate their own reproductive careers. That variation is of interest because it shapes the age range of children reliant on others for support and the age range of children available to help out, which in turn affects the competing demands on parents to support multiple dependents of different ages. The age at positive net production is used as a proxy to estimate the close of juvenile economic dependence among a group of Maya subsistence agriculturalists. Maya children produce more than they consume by their early to mid teens but remain in their natal households for a number of years before leaving home and beginning families of their own. The Maya results contrast markedly with those from several groups of hunter-gatherers and horticulturalists for whom we have similar data. Even in the Maya case, where children are self-sufficient at a relatively young age, parents are unable to support their children without help from others. The production surplus of older children appears to help underwrite the cost of large Maya families and subsidize their parents’ continued reproduction.
Starting Page	299
Ending Page	325
Page Count	27
File Format	PDF
ISSN	10456767
Journal	Human Nature
Volume Number	13
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	19364776
Language	English
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Publisher Date	2002-01-01
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Children’s work Family size Juvenile dependence Maya Time allocation Anthropology Behavioural Sciences Biological Psychology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Sociology and Political Science Arts and Humanities Anthropology Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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