Coparenting cooperation and child adjustment in low-income mother-grandmother and mother-father families

Barnett, Melissa A.; Scaramella, Laura V.; McGoron, Lucy; Callahan, Kristin L.

doi:10.1080/19424620.2011.642479

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“…Limited, related work has suggested that conflict between single mothers and their nonmarital coparents is directly and indirectly, via mothers' parenting, linked to children's development among African American families (e.g., Barnett, Scaramella, McGoron, & Callahan, 2011;Jones, Forehand, Dorsey, Foster, & Brody, 2005). For example, Shook, Jones, Forehand, Dorsey, and Brody (2010) reported that among African American single-mother families, mothers' positive parenting mediated the relationship between mother-reported conflict and support with coparents and child behavior problems during middle childhood.…”

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Mother‐Grandmother Conflict, Negative Parenting, and Young Children's Social Development in Multigenerational Families

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Mutigenerational households that include grandmothers and adult mothers caring for grandchildren are increasingly common. The influence, however, of mother‐grandmother relationship quality and grandmothers' parenting on grandchildren's social development remains largely unexplored in these three‐generation households. This study examines linkages among caregiver depressive symptoms, mother‐grandmother verbal conflict, observed parenting, and 36‐month‐old grandchildren's problem and prosocial behaviors among a subsample from the Family Life Project (N = 85) consisting of economically disadvantaged multigenerational families. The findings suggest that mother‐grandmother relationship conflict presents a risk to children's behavior directly and indirectly via mothers' negative parenting behaviors. Mothers seem to be more influenced by the mother‐grandmother relationship than grandmothers. These results highlight the importance of including mother‐grandmother conflict in mutigenerational families in family assessments and interventions.

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Section: Coparenting Among African American Familiesmentioning

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“…Analogous to the mother-father co-parenting relationship, the parent-grandparent co-parenting relationship equally serves as a key component of the family system and may also be related to the children's effortful control. Notably, most relevant studies on parent-grandparent co-parenting relationship in western countries focused on disadvantaged families, whose results hence cannot be directly extended in general to Chinese families (Barnett et al, 2011(Barnett et al, , 2012. Though some domestic scholars explored the current situation of the parent-grandparent co-parenting relationship and its influence on children's development, the majority of studies are crosssectional studies (Li et al, 2016;Xing et al, 2016).…”

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Bidirectional Longitudinal Relations Between Parent–Grandparent Co-parenting Relationships and Chinese Children’s Effortful Control During Early Childhood

Zhou

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2020

Front. Psychol.

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Parent-grandparent co-parenting has become a common mode in Chinese families; however, its correlation with children's development in the long run remains unclear. Herein, a 10-month follow-up survey was conducted among 253 preschool children and their parents from Chinese parent-grandparent co-parenting families. It aimed to examine the bidirectional longitudinal correlation of children's effortful control with mother-grandparent and father-grandparent co-parenting relationships, as well as the dissimilarity of the two co-parenting relationships. In addition, the moderating role of maternal parenting self-efficacy in these relationships was also investigated. A crosslagged model showed that the (1) mother-grandparent co-parenting relationship (T1) positively predicted the father-grandparent co-parenting relationship (T2), (2) dissimilarity of the mother-grandparent and father-grandparent co-parenting relationships (T1) negatively predicted children's effortful control (T2), and (3) maternal parenting selfefficacy significantly moderated the predictive effect of children's effortful control on a father-grandparent co-parenting relationship. However, a further simple slope analysis showed that after controlling the father-grandparent co-parenting relationship (T1), the children's effortful control (T1) did not significantly predict the father-grandparent co-parenting relationship (T2) either in the high or low maternal parenting selfefficacy group. These results indicated that in Chinese parent-grandparent co-parenting families, the father-grandparent co-parenting relationship was influenced by the mothergrandparent co-parenting relationship, and similar mother-grandparent and fathergrandparent co-parenting relationships were conducive to the development of the children's effortful control.

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“…According to Thomas (), underlying any parent–grandparent coparenting dyad is a double bind effect in which parents expect the grandparents to simultaneously “be there” but to not “interfere”. When this expectation is met, parents report the relationship is cooperative; parents are more resistant to stress and feel more confident in their parenting role (Barnett, Scaramella, McGoron, & Callahan, ; Kim, ). In many cases, however, grandparents are bounded by a perceived obligation to help with caring for their grandchildren (Breheny, Stephens, & Spilsbury, ; Mason, May, & Clarke, ).…”

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Coparenting Conflict and Cooperation between Parents and Grandparents in Vietnamese Families: The Role of Grandparent Psychological Control and Parent–Grandparent Communication

2019

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Shared care between parents and grandparents is common in Asian cultures. This cocare practice provides many benefits to families but is also particularly complex, as both parents and grandparents must simultaneously fulfill their roles as cocaregivers as well as maintain their relationship with each other. This study aims to explore the determinants of coparenting relationships between parents and grandparents in Vietnam. Data were collected from 501 Vietnamese parents whose aging parents are active carers for their children. The results indicated that grandparent psychological control and parent–grandparent quality of communication explain the largest variance in both parent–grandparent coparenting conflict and cooperation. The results suggest that parenting interventions aimed at the Asian cultures, where grandparent care is common, may benefit from the inclusion of a content focus on promoting the coparenting relationship between parents and grandparents.

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Coparenting cooperation and child adjustment in low-income mother-grandmother and mother-father families

Cited by 23 publications

References 30 publications

Mother‐Grandmother Conflict, Negative Parenting, and Young Children's Social Development in Multigenerational Families

Mother‐Grandmother Conflict, Negative Parenting, and Young Children's Social Development in Multigenerational Families

Bidirectional Longitudinal Relations Between Parent–Grandparent Co-parenting Relationships and Chinese Children’s Effortful Control During Early Childhood

Coparenting Conflict and Cooperation between Parents and Grandparents in Vietnamese Families: The Role of Grandparent Psychological Control and Parent–Grandparent Communication

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