Cooperative, Compromising, Conflictual, and Uninvolved Coparenting Among Teenaged Parents

Mallette, Jacquelyn K.; Futris, Ted G.; Brown, Geoffrey L.; Oshri, Assaf

doi:10.1177/0192513x19842239

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“…In a follow‐up study using quantitative survey data on coparenting cooperation and conflict provided by unmarried mothers in the FFCWS, Waller (2012) validated these four patterns of coparenting, using median splits to create high or low cooperation and conflict groups: a cooperative coparenting group in which mothers reported high cooperation and low conflict (37%), a disengaged coparenting group in which mothers reported low cooperation and low conflict (31%), a conflicted coparenting group in which mothers reported low cooperation and high conflict (25%), and a mixed coparenting group in which mothers reported high cooperation and high conflict (6%). Similar patterns were uncovered by Mallette et al (2019) using survey data on coparenting cooperation and conflict reported by unmarried adolescent mothers. The study used a LPA approach and found four latent classes: (a) a cooperative profile (39% of the sample), reflecting high cooperation and low conflict, (b) a compromising profile (19% of the sample), reflecting moderate cooperation and moderate conflict, a conflictual profile (22% of the sample), reflecting low cooperation and high conflict, and (d) an uninvolved profile (19% of the sample), reflecting both low cooperation and low conflict.…”

Section: Coparenting and Child Adjustmentsupporting

confidence: 83%

Patterns of coparenting and young children's social–emotional adjustment in low‐income families

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This study identified coparenting patterns using data collected across 2007-2010 from low-income couples (N = 2915; 26.90% non-Hispanic White; 9.41% non-Hispanic Black; 34.24% Hispanic, 29.27% other or mixed race) with young children (M = 3.65 years; SD = 1.31 years; 48% girls) and examined relations with children's social-emotional adjustment. Latent profile analysis revealed four coparenting patterns: mutual high-quality (43.4%), moderate-quality, mothers less positive (31.8%), moderate-quality, fathers less positive (15.9%), and low-quality, mothers less positive (8.9%). When parents' perspectives on coparenting were positive and congruent, children fared best. Children also fared well when coparenting quality was moderate, and mothers were less positive than fathers. When coparenting quality was moderate and fathers were less positive than mothers, children showed the poorest adjustment.

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Section: Coparenting and Child Adjustmentsupporting

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Patterns of coparenting and young children's social–emotional adjustment in low‐income families

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“…Among the four aspects of coparenting relationships examined in the present study, exposure of the child to interparental conflict showed the strongest longitudinal associations with parental sensitivity. This finding is in alignment with previous studies that also that interparental conflict (see Krishnakumar & Buehler, 2000, for a meta-analysis) and coparenting conflict (Mallette et al, 2019;Martin et al, 2017) have adverse effects on parenting behaviors. Whereas previous studies on interparental conflict primarily focused on marital conflict, or coparenting conflict was often operationalized as interparental conflict on child-related topics, the present study focused on coparental conflict in the presence of the child.…”

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Do associations between coparenting relationships and parenting behaviors differ for new mothers and fathers?

Wang¹,

Schoppe‐Sullivan²

2023

Journal of Family Psychology

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Engaging and high-quality parenting is critical to children’s positive development. At the transition to parenthood, the coparenting relationship serves as an important context for the development of patterns of positive engagement and sensitive parenting. As suggested by the father vulnerability hypothesis, the coparenting relationship may be more critical to fathers’ than to mothers’ development as parents. The present study examined associations between multiple dimensions of coparenting relationships and new mothers’ and fathers’ positive engagement and parental sensitivity and tested for differences in these associations between mothers and fathers. In addition, associations of parents’ positive engagement and sensitivity over time were also examined. Survey and observational data were collected from 181 dual-earner different-gender couples in the first year postpartum (18–50 years old; 86% White; 48% children were girls) and analyzed with path models. The results showed that lower conflict exposure and higher partner endorsement at 3 months postpartum were associated with higher parental sensitivity at 9 months postpartum. Greater received support at 3 months postpartum was related to higher positive engagement at 9 months postpartum. Associations between coparenting and parenting behavior did not differ for mothers and fathers. However, fathers’ (but not mothers’) higher positive engagement at 3 months postpartum portended greater parental sensitivity at 9 months postpartum. In sum, contrary to the father vulnerability hypothesis, the findings of the present study suggest that coparenting and parenting are associated in similar ways for new fathers and mothers in dual-earner families.

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“…Couples who exhibited more positive relationship behaviors before their children were born included fathers who showed more positive parenting behavior, more supportive coparenting behavior, and less undermining coparenting 9 months later. The quality of the coparents’ relationship, as the executive subsystem of the family (Van Egeren & Hawkins, 2004), is a key aspect of the family system and is associated with both child and parent well-being (Lau & Power, 2019; Mallette et al, 2019; Teubert & Pinquart, 2010). Several transition to parenthood programs focus on supporting and improving the couples’ interpersonal relationship, and our findings support the critical importance of these efforts for the development of subsequent father–child and coparenting relationships (Cowan et al, 2007).…”

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“…However, fathers' coparenting behaviors toward mothers also matter. Fathers' coparenting support is associated with stronger maternal mental health (Mallette et al, 2019), whereas fathers' triangulation of the child to undermine maternal authority is associated with increases in mothers' parenting stress (Lau & Power, 2019). Thus, in the current study we included an observational assessment of fathers' coparenting behavior in addition to fathers' parenting behavior to capture the extent to which adherence to masculine norms and father nurturing role beliefs affect fathers' behavior across family relationships.…”

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confidence: 99%

Fathers’ parenting and coparenting behavior in dual-earner families: Contributions of traditional masculinity, father nurturing role beliefs, and maternal gate closing.

Schoppe‐Sullivan¹,

Shafer²,

Olofson³

et al. 2021

Psychology of Men & Masculinities

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We investigated whether dual-earner fathers’ adherence to traditional masculine norms, father nurturing role beliefs, and maternal gate closing behavior predicted the quality of new fathers’ observed parenting and coparenting behavior. Data were drawn from a longitudinal study of the transition to parenthood among 182 dual-earner different-sex couples. Expectant fathers reported their masculine agency, hostile sexism, gendered provider beliefs, and father nurturing role beliefs in the third trimester of pregnancy. Maternal gate closing behavior was coded from observations of mother–father–infant interaction at 3 months postpartum. At 9 months postpartum, the quality of fathers’ parenting behavior was coded from observations of father–infant interaction, and the quality of fathers’ coparenting behavior was coded from observations of mother–father–infant interaction. Structural equation modeling (SEM) analyses indicated that fathers who held stronger father nurturing role beliefs showed more positive parenting behavior and less undermining coparenting behavior. Fathers higher in masculine agency also showed more positive parenting behavior. Mothers’ greater gate closing behavior was linked to less positive parenting and less supportive coparenting behavior by fathers. More positive couple behavior observed prenatally was also associated with better parenting and coparenting by fathers. These results highlight the complexity of relations of traditional masculinity, father role beliefs, and maternal gate closing with the quality of new fathers’ behaviors with children and partners in dual-earner families.

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Cooperative, Compromising, Conflictual, and Uninvolved Coparenting Among Teenaged Parents

Cited by 8 publications

References 52 publications

Patterns of coparenting and young children's social–emotional adjustment in low‐income families

Patterns of coparenting and young children's social–emotional adjustment in low‐income families

Do associations between coparenting relationships and parenting behaviors differ for new mothers and fathers?

Fathers’ parenting and coparenting behavior in dual-earner families: Contributions of traditional masculinity, father nurturing role beliefs, and maternal gate closing.

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