International preference in selecting mates

Included a total of 18 items

Each item was ranked on a scale from a 3 to a 0, for indispensible to irrelevant

Asked information about age preferences

perceptions of beauty are based on the relation between the target's face and body features and the perceivers' needs

Biological evolution, sociocultural forces, and individual personality influence perception

Monogamy - 1 man, 1 woman

Polygny - 1 man, multiple women

Polyandry - 1 woman, multiple men

Group marriage - yup

Western:  Marriage is culmination of "romance"

Eastern: Arranged marriage

No formal marriages or ceremonies

Relationship between partners

Often conducted secretly

Belief that individuals (sometimes specifically women) should refrain from sex until marriage

Oten tied to religious beliefs

Marrying of girls under the age of 15

Bride Price - gifts given to bride's family for marriage

Ethiopia and Nigeria have 50% of girls married before 15

Saudi Arabia has no legal marriages, but some Muslim clerics have acceptable marriages for girls as young as 9

South Asia - high rates of cild marriages despite laws

Pre-industrial world

Dates back to Ancient Greece and Rome (older men, younger men or adolescents)

Dates back to earliest record in Japan

Abrahamic texts (Judeo-Christian) texts forbade sodomy

Sex - biological aspect of male or female-ness

(chormosomes, hormones, gonads, genitals)

Gender - acquired behavioral and psychologcial aspects of being man or woman

An individual who identifies with a biological sex different from their own biological sex

Distinct from orientation

Kathoey - male to female transgender or effeminate gay male

Although some social stigma, largely accepted

Most sexual reassignment surgeries in the world

Reflecting one child policy.

4 grandparents, 2 parents, 1 child

Parental beliefs are shaped by culture

They relate to actions in a systematic way

German v. West African mothers, Nso mothers emphasized primary care, body contact, and body stimulation

Germanic mothers emphasized face to face interaction and exclusive attention

Authoritative - Responsive and Demanding

 Authoritarian - Demanding and Not Responsive

Indulgent - Not Demanding and Responsive

Negligant - Not Demanding and Not Responsive

Socialization goals that parents have for their children lead to different types of parenting practices which in turn lead to adaptive adolescent outcomes

Views parenting style as a context.

Non-hispanic whites 23%

Blacks 60%

Native American 50%

Asian 16%

Hispanic 38%

Overall - 32% of children are products of single-parent households

Simaptica - stresses loyalty, dignitty, friendliness, politeness, affection, and respect for others

Personalismo - Stresses personal goodness and getting along with others more important than individual success

Respeto - Valuing and acknowledging hierarchies that define and  individual's proper place in society on the basis of age, gender, race, and class