Parenting costs time: Changes in pair bond maintenance across pregnancy and infant rearing in a monogamous primate ( Plecturocebus cupreus )
| Autor: | Madison E. Dufek, Karen L. Bales, Allison R. Lau, Chloe L Karaskiewicz, Lynea R. Witczak |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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relationship maintenance
Parents infant development Social Psychology Offspring parental care nonhuman primate Reproductive health and childbirth Relationship maintenance Basic Behavioral and Social Science Callicebus Article Pregnancy Behavioral and Social Science Developmental and Educational Psychology medicine Psychology Animals Humans affiliation Social Behavior attachment Pediatric Pair Bond Parenting Prevention Infant Care medicine.disease Pair bond Good Health and Well Being Social animal Female Paternal care Postpartum period Demography |
| Zdroj: | New Dir Child Adolesc Dev New directions for child and adolescent development, vol 2021, iss 180 |
| ISSN: | 1534-8687 1520-3247 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/cad.20438 |
| Popis: | Relationships support social animals' health, but maintaining relationships is challenging. When transitioning to parenthood, new parents balance pair-bond maintenance with infant care. We studied pair-bond maintenance via affiliation in 22 adult titi monkey pairs (Plecturocebus cupreus) for 16 months centered aroundtheir first offspring's birth. Pair affiliation peaked during pregnancy, decreased across the postpartum period, and rose after reaching minimum affiliation 32.6weeks postpartum. Pairs in which fathers carry infants more than average had lower affiliation at the infant's birth and return to an increase in affiliation sooner. Parents of infants who were slow to independence had higher rates of affiliation. Titi monkey infants actively prefer their fathers; mothers may avoid their infant-carrying mate, suggesting infants play an active role in parental affiliative decline. Our data supports previous findings that affiliation between partners declines following an infant's birth, but demonstrates new knowledge about the extent and duration of affiliative decline. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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