Kin-Influence and Homosexuality: Further Theoretical Considerations
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24 a younger age and were more likely to have a second child than women with less contact with kin. This suggests that, indeed, being around the family promotes behaviors, norms, and ideas that support fertility and heteronormative behavior. Kin-based societies will maintain norms that discourage homosexual behavior. Newson and Richerson (this issue) provide a validated model suggesting that, on a cultural scale, the rapid rise of acceptance and tolerance of homosexual behavior is localized mostly to Western societies (which tend to be more economically developed and less kin-focused).
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