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Polyprogenitive Family Systems Studies: Establishing a New Interdisciplinary Field for Maternal Multi-Partner Fertility, Reproductive Binding, Distributed Fatherhood, Kinship Complexity, and Child Development

Abstract

This foundational paper establishes Polyprogenitive Family Systems Studies as an interdisciplinary field for examining families formed through biological childbearing with multiple reproductive partners. The paper introduces controlled terminology distinguishing polyprogenitive motherhood as a family structure, reproductive promiscuity as a proposed recurrent behavioral construct, and…

Author
Francisco M. Martinez
Publication date
August 22, 2026
Version
1.0
DOI
10.5281/zenodo.22058854
Research program
Society, Demography, and Human Systems
Version of record
Zenodo DOI record

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