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Despite increasing research into connections between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and health problems, the impact of parental ACEs on parenting practices has not been sufficiently clear. The objective of the study was to consider whether the association between maternal ACEs and child maltreatment is affected by three mediating factors: socio‐economic status (SES), social support and maternal psychological distress in adulthood. The Kochi Child Health Impact of Living Difficulty (K‐CHILD) study (2016) provided the data for this study. Mothers who had children in the first, fifth, eighth and eleventh grade and who lived in the Kochi Prefecture of Japan participated. A pool of 11,954 completed child and caregiver questionnaires was used for analysis. We found that a large number of maternal ACEs was connected to higher risk of physical abuse, psychological abuse and neglect. Maternal psychological distress had the greatest mediating effect. Maternal ACEs can be a risk factor for maltreatment of children. This study suggests that care for mothers with psychological distress will be a key intervention to break the cycle of childhood adversity.

is paper examines di erent types of social support networks that can relieve loneliness during parenting. Previous research on the relationship between social support networks and well-being during parenting mostly used cross-sectional data, consisted of women as study subjects, and focused exclusively on private rather than public social support networks. In contrast, this study uses nationwide panel data from Japan to examine the types of social support networks, including both private and public support, that could reduce the loneliness of men and women raising children. e main ndings of this study are as follows. First, a social support network comprising a husband who provides emotional and instrumental support, and friends who provide emotional support tend to reduce mothers loneliness. Second, a social support network comprising a wife who provides emotional support, tsudoi-no-hiroba gathering plazas , and parenting circles tend to relieve fathers loneliness.is paper indicates the possibility that such places could improve fathers well-being by allowing fathers to deepen their relationships with other fathers or their children.

Although expectations for foster care have recently increased, most foster parents experience the serious problem of stressful situations. Previous research in Japan has focused on foster parents perceptions in coping with crises. e present study continues that line of inquiry through interviews but crucially alters it by focusing on the in uence of intra-and extra-familial social relationships.is study contributes two ndings. First, the foster parents overcame crises by sharing hardships with the cooperation and understanding of family members, and by relativizing di culties through information from similar foster parent experiences and expert knowledge. Second, the role identity of foster parents was strengthened through the process of crisis coping by obtaining positive evaluations from foster children and o cials at child consultation centers. ese results suggest that instrumental, emotional, and informational support from social relationships inside and outside the family ease the negative in uence of stressors and that appraisal support from care recipients and public third persons always stabilizes the psychological state of foster parents.

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