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...cultures worldwide are dominated by women. Jamaica is a veritable matriarchal society that has the potential to become a model for the world. It boasts a national heroine: "Nanny," leader of the insurgent Maroons, military tactician and chieftain, who outsmarted the British in the 18th century. Ehrenreich's compelling "grandma hypothesis"--that children do better with a grandmother figure on the scene--is alive and well in Jamaica. VALERIE FACEY Kingston, Jamaica...
...Grandma June know she'd have a star on her hands? "I had no idea," says June of the little girl she raised in the Astoria section of Queens in New York City. "But I did think it was strange that she could throw the ball all the way from one end of the court to another in 8th grade. And she was so skinny!" Says Vincent Cannizzaro, Holdsclaw's high school coach: "June's backing keeps her on an even keel...
...mystery of menopause. Nature is no friend of the infertile, and in most primates, the end of childbearing coincides with the end of life, so it was always hard to see why human females get to live for years, even decades, after their ovaries go into retirement. Hence the "grandma hypothesis": maybe the evolutionary "purpose" of the postmenopausal woman was to keep her grandchildren provided with berries and tubers and nuts, especially while Mom was preoccupied with a new baby. If Grandma were still bearing and nursing her own babies, she'd be too busy to baby-sit, so natural...
...nuisance of herself among the hunting-gathering Hadza people of Tanzania, charting the hour-by-hour activities of 90 individuals, male and female, and weighing the children at regular intervals. The results, published in late 1997 and reported by Angier in detail, established that children did better if Grandma was on the case--and, if not her, then a great-aunt or similar grandma figure. This doesn't prove the grandma hypothesis for all times and all peoples, but it does strongly suggest that in the Stone Age family, Dad-the-hunter was not the only provider. The occasional antelope...
...major factor affecting divorce," says Larry Bumpass, a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin. "The trend in divorce stretches back over the last hundred years, so clearly it wasn't caused by cohabitation." Indeed, cohabitation may have helped stall the rising divorce rate by weeding out unstable relationships. So, Grandma, don't gloat just...