The quality of the interparental relationship is recognized as an important influence on child
and adolescent psychopathology. Historically, clinically oriented research on this topic has …

▪ Abstract In this chapter, we discuss theoretical and conceptual models that use an
organismic or systems metaphor for understanding families. We suggest that such theories …

Background It has been proposed that adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can put
women at risk for mental illness in the pregnancy and postpartum periods. While some …

Objective: Although there is an established link between parenting stress, postnatal
depression, and anxiety, no study has yet investigated this link in first-time parental couples …

" This is the most important study ever written on motherhood and marriage among low-
income urban women. Edin and Kefalas's timely, engaging, and well-written book is a …

Scientific study of marital satisfaction attracted widespread attention in the 1990s from
scholars representing diverse orientations and goals. This article highlights key conceptual …

This longitudinal study examined the effect of the birth of the 1st child on relationship
functioning using data from 218 couples (436 individuals) over the course of the first 8 years …

In this chapter, we address a dynamic that lies inextricably at the core of most family systems
around the world—that of the coparenting collaboration operative between the important …

Despite the fact that most people become parents and everyone who has ever lived has had
parents, parenting remains a mystifying subject about which almost everyone has opinions …

The transition to parenthood is a momentous time that has numerous repercussions for new
parents, as a couple and as individuals. This qualitative exploratory study examines new …