Male Fertility and Parenting in New Mexico: Phase II

新墨西哥大学的两位人类学家参与了这个项目，他们对当代美国男性生育能力和养育子女进行了研究。被测试的理论是从男性养育行为和生育能力的进化模型中提取出来的，旨在解释孩子的总数以及父母在孩子身上投入的经济和非经济资源。研究人员使用的数据来自于对新墨西哥州阿尔伯克基21岁以上的盎格鲁和西班牙裔男性的代表性样本的结构化访谈。研究人员将对约1万名男性进行短期访谈，对约2000名男性进行长期访谈，以获取不同世代个体的生育能力、养育子女和收入数据。这项研究很重要，因为大多数关于生育的研究都是针对女性的。该项目将通过提供来自不同年龄和社会经济群体的男性数据，推进我们对养育子女的理论理解。

This project involves two anthropologists from the University of New Mexico in a study of male fertility and parenting in the contemporary US. The theories tested are drawn from evolutionary models of male parenting practices and fertility, and are designed to explain the total number of children and the economic and noneconomic resources invested in children by parents. The researchers use data from structured interviews with a representative sample of Anglo and Hispanic men over 21 years of age in Albuquerque, NM. A short interview will be administered to about 10,000 men and a long interview administered to about 2,000 men to obtain fertility, parenting, and income data from individuals in diverse generations. This research is important because most studies of fertility deal with women. This project will advance our theoretical understanding of parenting by contributing data on males from different age and socio-economic cohorts.