Table 2.
Summary of postmarital residence and paternity beliefs divided into the major language families
| Language family | n | Uxorilocal | Virilocal | Ambi/neolocal | Partible paternity | Singular paternity | Unknown beliefs | Partible paternity + virilocal residence |
| Tupi | 23 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 13 | 2 | 8 | Cinta Larga |
| Carib | 19 | 14 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 9 | |
| Je | 15 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 5 | |
| Pano | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 3 | Matis |
| Arawak | 18 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 12 | Curripaco |
| Tukano | 8 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | Wanano |
| Other | 35 | 16 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 9 | 13 | |
| Total | 128 | 66 | 35 | 25 | 53 | 23 | 52 | 4 |
Cells are counts of ethnolinguistic groups.