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Conflict and tension in the couple relationship transfers to the parent–child relationship, amplifying the stress parents experience while parenting young children. Pinpointing moderating and individual‐level factors that exist in this spillover process may identify both couple and individual areas where spillover might be mitigated. This study used a within‐couple approach to test for gender differences in marital‐to‐parenting spillover and to examine the moderating roles of gender, parental identity, and the emotion regulation strategy cognitive reappraisal in the linkages between marital–parenting spillover. From a larger study of parenting experiences, 96 mother–father couples of young children (mean age = 3.22 years) reported on measures of marital satisfaction, cognitive reappraisal, parenting identity, and parenting stress. Using path model comparisons, we found more similarities than differences between …