The interdependence of relationships with adult children and spouses

JE Lee, SH Zarit, MJ Rovine, K Birditt… - Family …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Researchers have documented the interrelatedness of parent–child and marital
relationships during the early parenting years, but little is known about how these two family …

Relationship quality with parents: Implications for own and partner well‐being in middle‐aged couples

CA Polenick, SJ Fredman, KS Birditt, SH Zarit - Family Process, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Relationships with parents have significant implications for well‐being throughout the
lifespan. At midlife, these ties are situated within both developmental and family contexts that …

Just the two of us? How parents influence adult children's marital quality

C Reczek, H Liu, D Umberson - Journal of Marriage and Family, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
We work from a life‐course perspective to explore how relationships with parents affect adult
children's marital quality. We further ask whether the effects of parents on adult children's …

Marital interaction prior to parenthood predicts parent–child interaction 9 years later.

L Tanner Stapleton, TN Bradbury - Journal of Family Psychology, 2012 - psycnet.apa.org
The well-established association between marital interaction and child well-being is
sometimes interpreted as evidence that couple behavior “spills over” to affect parenting and …

Links between marital and parent–child relationship in African American families: A dyadic approach.

OD Skinner, X Sun, SM McHale - Journal of Family Psychology, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
Grounded in a family systems perspective, we used a dyadic approach to examine
longitudinal associations between parents' marital relationship qualities (marital conflict and …

Parent–child contact, closeness, and conflict across the transition to adulthood

S Fang, NL Galambos… - Journal of Marriage and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Objective This study examined whether youth and parent perceptions of parent–child
contact, closeness, and conflict change during the transition to adulthood, and how …

Family relationships from adolescence to early adulthood: Changes in the family system following firstborns' leaving home

SD Whiteman, SM McHale… - Journal of Research on …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
This study charted the course of parent–child and sibling relationships from early
adolescence to early adulthood and examined how these relationships changed following …

Father involvement and father–child relationship quality: An intergenerational perspective

V Jessee, K Adamsons - Parenting, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Objective. The present study looks at predictors that may be associated with father–child
relationship quality and whether relationship quality appears to be transmitted across …

Adult children in complex families: How do relationships affect relationships?

M Hornstra, M Kalmijn, K Ivanova - Family relations, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Objective We examined how adult (step) parent–child closeness is associated to the quality
of other ties in the family network (ie, parent–child dyads, parent–parent dyads). Background …

Parental support of adult children and middle-aged couples' marital satisfaction

CA Polenick, KS Birditt, SH Zarit - The Gerontologist, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Objectives Middle-aged adults commonly provide support to
grown offspring. Yet little is known about how parental support may be related to parents' …