TY - JOUR PY - 2001// TI - Father Absence and Male Aggression. A Re‐Examination of the Comparative Evidence JO - Ethos A1 - Ember, Carol R. A1 - Ember, Melvin SP - 296 EP - 314 VL - 29 IS - 3 N2 - Beatrice B. Whiting suggested that sex-identity conflict leads to male violence cross-culturally. While subsequent worldwide cross-cultural research has been equivocal regarding the "sex-identity conflict" hypothesis, we suggest that this may be because researchers have failed to pay attention to Whiting's contingent conditions—how powerful men are compared to women, and the degree to which aggression is considered a component of the male adult role. Using multiple regression, we examine how homicide and assualt rates also may be affected by the degree to which aggression is explicitly encouraged, the extent of corporal punishment, and whether the father or the mother is the main publisher

LA - SN - 0091-2131 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/eth.2001.29.3.296 ID - ref1 ER -