Adolescent fertility and risky environments: A population-level perspective across the lifespan

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1744, 2012, Pages 4003-4008

  Placek, Caitlyn D ^a   Quinlan, Robert J ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental risk; Life history theory; Reproductive effort

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; DATABASE; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; FERTILITY; GLOBAL ECONOMY; LIFE HISTORY THEORY; MORTALITY; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED NATIONS;

EID: 84865371578     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.1022     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Stearns, S. C. 1992 The evolution of life histories. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
2. Anderson, K. G. 2010 Life expectancy and the timing of life history events in developing countries. Hum. Nat. 21, 103-123. (doi:10.1007/s12110-010-9087-z.)
3. Low, B. S., Hazel, A., Parker, N. & Welch, K. B. 2008 Influences on women's reproductive lives - unexpected ecological underpinnings. Cross-Cult. Res. 42, 201-219. (doi:10.1177/1069397108317669)
4. Quinlan, R. 2007 Human parental effort & environmental risk. Proc. R. Soc. B 274, 121-125. (doi:10.1098/rspb.2006.3690)
5. Quinlan, R. 2010 Extrinsic mortality effects on reproductive strategies in a Caribbean community. Hum. Nat. 21, 124-139. (doi:10.1007/s12110-010-9085-1)
6. Roff, D. A. 2002 Life history evolution. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer.
7. Chisholm, J. S. 1993 Death, hope, and sex: life history theory and the development of reproductive strategies. Curr. Anthropol. 34, 1-24. (doi:10.2277/0521597080)
8. Chisholm, J. 1999 Death, hope and sex: steps to an evolutionary ecology of mind and morality. New York, NY: Cambridge.
9. Promislow, D. E. L. & Harvey, P. H. 1991 Mortality rates and the evolution of mammal life histories. Acta Oecol. 12, 119-137.
10. Daly, M. & Wilson, M. 1997 Life expectancy, economic inequality, homicide, and reproductive timing in Chicago neighborhoods. Br. Med. J. 314, 1271-1274. (doi:10.1136/bmj.314.7089.1271)
11. Ellis, B. J. 2004 Timing of pubertal maturation in girls: an integrated life history approach. Psychol. Bull. 130, 920-958. (doi:10.1037/0033-2909.130.6.920)
12. Vitzthum, V. J. 2001 Why not so great is still good enough: Flexible responsiveness in human reproductive functioning. In Reproductive ecology and human evolution (ed. P. T. Ellison), pp. 179-202. New York, NY: Aldine de Gruyter.
13. Belsky, J., Steinberg, L. & Draper, P. 1991 Childhood experience, interpersonal development, and reproductive strategy: an evolutionary theory of socialization. Child Dev. 62, 647-670. (doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.1991.tb01558.x)
14. Draper, P. & Harpending, H. 1982 Father absence and reproductive strategy: an evolutionary perspective. J. Anthropol. Res. 38, 255-279.
15. Ellis, B., McFadyen-ketchum, S., Dodge, K., Pettit, G. & Bates, J. 1999 Quality of early family relationships and individual differences in the timing of pubertal maturation in girls: a longitudinal test of an evolutionary model. J. Pers. Soc. Psychol. 77, 387-401. (doi:10.1037/0022-3514.77.2.387)
16. Nettle, D., Coall, D. A. & Dickins, T. E. 2011 Early-life conditions and age at first pregnancy in British women. Proc. R. Soc. B 278, 1721-1727. (doi:10.1098/rspb.2010.1726)
17. Quinlan, R. & Quinlan, M. 2007 Parenting and cultures of risk: a comparative analysis of infidelity, aggression and witchcraft. Am. Anthropol. 109, 164-179. (doi:10.1525/aa.2007.109.1.164)
18. Rutter, M. & O'Conner, T. 2004 Are there biological programming effects for psychological development? Findings from a study of Romanian adoptees. Hum. Biol.40, 81-94. (doi:10.1037/0012-1649.40.1.81)
19. Flinn, M.V., Quinlan, R., Coe, K. & Ward, C. 2008 Evolution of the human family. In Family relations: an evolutionary perspective (eds C. Salmon & T. Shackelford), pp. 16-38. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
20. Coall, D. A. & Chisholm, J. S. 2010 Reproductive development and parental investment during pregnancy: moderating influence of mother's early environment. Am. J. Hum.Biol. 20, 143-153. (doi:10.1002/ajhb.20965)
21. Whiting, B. 1980 Culture and social behavior: a model for the development of social behavior. Ethos 8, 95-116. (doi:10.1525/eth.1980.8.2.02a00010)
22. Quinlan, R. J. & Flinn, M. V. 2003 Intergenerational transmission of conjugal stability in a Caribbean village. J. Comp. Fam. Stud. 34, 569-583.
23. United Nations Statistics Division. 2011 See http://dataun.org/Default.aspx (accessed 1 October 2011).
24. United Nations. 2012 Department of Economic and Social Affairs: Population Division, Population Estimates and Projections Section. See http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/index.htm (accessed 10 April 2012).
25. Millennium Development Goals Indicators. 2012 The Official United Nations Site for the MDG Indicators. See http://mdgs.un.org/unsd/mdg/ (accessed 10 January 2012).
26. World Health Organization. 2012 See http://www.who.int/whosis/en/ (accessed 10 January 2012).
27. Hill, K., Thomas, K., Abou Zahr, C., Walker, N., Say, L., Inoue, M. & Suzuki, E. 2007 Estimates of maternal mortality worldwide between 1990 and 2005: an assessment of available data. Lancet 370, 1311-1319. (doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(07)61572-4)
28. Hogan, M. C., Foreman, K. J., Naghavi, M., Ahn, S. Y., Wang, M., Makela, S., Lopez, A. D., Lozano, R. & Murray, C. J. L. 2010 Maternal mortality for 181 countries, 1980-2008: a systematic analysis of progress towards millennium development goal 5. Lancet 375, 1609-1623. (doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(10)60518-1)
29. Human Development Reports. 2012 See http://hdr.undp.org/en/statistics/indices/ (accessed 10 January 2012).
30. The State of the World's Children. 2011 See http://www.unicef.org/sowc2011/index.php (accessed 1 October 2011).
31. United Nations Statistics Division: Gender Info. 2007 See http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/genderinfo/ (accessed 10 January 2011).
32. Muthén, B. & Muthén, L. 2010 Mplus user's guide (version 6.0). Los Angeles, CA: Muthén & Muthén.
33. Kline, R. B. 2010 Principles and practice of structural equation modeling. New York, NY: The Guilford Press.
34. Baron, R. M. & Kenny, D. A. 1986 The moderatormediator variable distinction in social psychological research: conceptual, strategic, and statistical considerations. J. Pers. Soc. Psychol. 51, 1173-1182. (doi:10.1037/0022-3514.51.6.1173)
35. Chishom, J. S., Quinlivan, J. A., Peterson, R. W. & Coall, D. A. 2005 Early stress predicts age at menarche and first birth, adult attachment, and expected lifespan. Hum. Nat. 16, 233-265. (doi:10.1007/s12110-005-1009-0).
36. Bereczkei, T. 1993 R-selected reproductive strategies among Hungarian gipsies: a preliminary analysis. Ethol. Sociobiol. 14, 71-88. (doi:10.1016/0162-3095(93)90008-6)
37. Geronimus, A. T., Bound, J. & Colen, C. G. 2011 Excess black mortality in the United States and in selected black and white high-poverty areas, 1980-2000. Am. J. Public Health 101, 720-729. (doi:10.2105/AJPH.2010.195537)
38. Hertz, E., Herbert, J. R. & Landon, J. 1994 Social and environmental factors and life expectancy, infant mortality, and maternal mortality rates: Results of a cross-national comparison. Soc. Sci. Med. 39, 105-114.(doi:10.1016/0277-9536(94)90170-8)
39. Lee, K., Park, S., Khoshnood, B., Hsieh, H. L. & Mittendorf, R. 1997 Human development index as a predictor of infant and maternal mortality rates. J. Pediatr. 131, 430-433. (doi:10.1016/S0022-3476(97)80070-4)