Nekehia Quashie

6 Responses to Nekehia Quashie

1. Cristina Moya says:

   January 10, 2014 at 2:27 pm

   1. Would it be possible to analyse this by gender of the child providing support? I wonder if there is a sexual division of labor among children in the kind of support their provide parents.

   2. Would there be any way to examine whether the lower rates of support for elderly men reflects their having invested in their children less earlier in their lives?
   • Nekehia Quashie says:

     January 10, 2014 at 6:07 pm

     Dear Cristina:
     Thanks for taking the time to read the paper. I appreciate that and your comments/questions.

     1) The data will allow me to examine support based on the gender of the child. I didn’t include it in the present paper but I do intend to include children’s gender eiher as a separate paper or as a revision of this paper. I think it would be an interesting contribution to examine diviision of labour among children in a matrifocal society.

     2) Regarding lower rates of support among elderly men reflecting investing in children earlier in thier life course, this is a little trickier. The data does not provide information on the timing of parental support (wheterh earlier in life course or presently) but it does give me information on parents’ provision of support, overall. Thus, I intend to include these measures and examine the extent to which bi-directional support is gendered.
     Theoretically, as Puerto Rico is a matrifocal society it can be argued that men’s lower receipt of support is due to thier lesser investment in children over the life course.

     I hope this is clear. Thanks for giving me the opportunity to engage in disucssion on this paper.
     • Cristina Moya says:

       January 11, 2014 at 4:08 pm

       Thanks for your responses. Great project. A bit off topic, I wonder if the designation of Puerto Rico as matrifocal also entails that it’s matrilocal. That is, do couples tend to live nearer a woman’s parents than near the husband’s parents? Would you know of any literature in this regard?
       • Nekehia Quashie says:

         January 12, 2014 at 12:13 am

         Hi Cristina:
         I don’t know of any literature on matrilocality in Puerto Rico but I suspect it could be the case. I will look into it. That’s a great suggestion and even more for a research topic. I would love to continue this discussion beyond the seminar. What’s your area of research?
       • Nekehia Quashie says:

         January 12, 2014 at 7:50 pm

         Hi Cristina:
         There’s research on Caribbean family systems overall, (Janet Momsen and Helen Safa, to start) that describes matirfocality and matrilocality. Matrilocality, however, is not discussed specifically in the context of Puerot Rico.
         • Cristina Moya says:

           January 14, 2014 at 11:20 pm

           Thanks for the literature suggestion. Feel free to get in touch via email. I’m an evolutionary anthropologist, currently working on some projects having to do with cross-cultural variation in how family affect fertility.