Expectant adolescent couples' relations and subsequent parenting behavior

Florsheim, Paul; Smith, Allison M.

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“…Parfitt et al research which suggests that the parent-baby relationship can be predicted already in pregnancy, by the interactions of the couple (Favez et al, 2006;Florsheim & Smith, 2005). This also suggests a causal direction with the couple's relationship influencing the parent-baby relationship, rather than the other way around.…”

Section: Journal Of Reproductive and Infant Psychology 451mentioning

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“…Family system perspectives have long acknowledged the important role of the interparental relationship in influencing the parent-child relationships, and vice versa (Erel & Burman, 1995;Florsheim & Smith, 2005), with a contagion of both positive and negative interactive patterns across the family triad (Barnett, Deng, Mills-Koonce, Willoughby, & Cox, 2008;Ryan, Martin, & Brooks-Gunn, 2006). Typical findings are that the more negative the couple's relationship quality, the worse the parent-baby relationship, and vice versa (Carlson, Pilkauskas, McLanahan, & Brooks-Gunn, 2011; for a review see Krishnakumar & Buehler, 2000).…”

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A prospective study of the parent–baby bond in men and women 15 months after birth

Parfitt

Ayers

Pike

et al. 2014

Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology

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Objective: To prospectively examine the impact of parental mental health (PTSD, depression and anxiety), the couple's relationship quality and the infant temperament on the parent-baby bond in first-time mothers and fathers. Background: Evidence suggests that poor parental mental health, difficult infant temperament and/or lower quality of the couple's relationship may impede the parent-baby bond. However, little research has included both parents or followed these measures across time. Methods: 75 women and 66 men completed questionnaire measures during pregnancy, 3 and 15 months postpartum, assessing mental health symptoms, the parent-baby bond, the couple's relationship and infant characteristics. The response rates at different time-points were 90%, 77% and 70%. Results: The parent-baby bond was associated with parental mental health, the couple's relationship and infant characteristics. The most important predictors of the parent-baby bond three months postpartum for both men and women were the couple's relationship during pregnancy and their baby's temperament at three months. At 15 months postpartum, after accounting for the parent-baby bond at 3 months, only concurrent infant temperament remained a significant predictor for women. However, men's bond with their baby at 15 months was predicted by their relationship with their partner in pregnancy and concurrent affective symptoms. Few significant gender differences were found, apart from women reporting more mental health symptoms than men. Conclusion: This study highlights the significance of the couple's relationship in pregnancy and the infant's temperament on the development of the parent-baby bond. Future research is needed to examine this in larger more representative samples.Keywords: parent-baby bond; mental health; longitudinal; father(s); mother(s) IntroductionThe formation of a close positive early relationship between a parent and their baby is widely viewed as important for a range of child outcomes, such as social, emotional and cognitive development. Impaired parent-baby relationships have been estimated to range between 3% and 9% in the general population (Righetti-Veltema, Conne-Perrard, Bousquet, & Manzano, 2002;Skovgaard et al., 2008) and between 10% and 25% in psychiatric samples (Brockington, 2004).

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Section: Journal Of Reproductive and Infant Psychology 451mentioning

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A prospective study of the parent–baby bond in men and women 15 months after birth

Parfitt

Ayers

Pike

et al. 2014

Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology

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“…Within the dynamic developmental systems approach, we emphasize influence that is directly pertinent to the outcome of interest. A variety of studies document the influences that mothers' psychological characteristics, behaviors toward their partners, and attitudes about fathers' roles have on various aspects of fathering, such as involvement, role satisfaction, and destructive parenting (De Luccie, 1996;Florsheim & Smith, 2005;Grossman, Pollack, & Golding, 1988;McBride et al, 2005;Simons, Whitbeck, Conger, & Melby, 1990). However, prior research does not directly address the question of whether partners' parenting impacts fathers' parenting practices, nor does it account for other important influences, including parents' risk behaviors and childhood experiences.…”

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“…As consistency between parents in their parenting practices is usually recommended in parental advice books (e.g., Forgatch & Patterson, 2005), individual parents may feel some pressure to change their parenting practices to be more in line with those of their partner or at least to make some compromises. Numerous studies with diverse samples (e.g., adolescent parents, middle-class adult parents, clinic-referred parents) support the view that mothers' and fathers' observed and self-reported parenting styles, attitudes, and discipline strategies show similarities (Denham et al, 2000;Florsheim & Smith, 2005;Florsheim et al, 2003;Kerr, Lopez, Olson, & Sameroff, 2004;Mahoney, Donnelly, Lewis, & Maynard, 2000;Nobes & Smith, 1997;Simons et al, 1990;Smith & Farrington, 2004;Tamis-LeMonda, Shannon, Cabrera, & Lamb, 2004). Yet, none of these reviewed studies, nor any others of which we are aware, examined partner influences after accounting for parents' individual and family risk and also for partner selection effects.…”

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Intergenerational and Partner Influences on Fathers’ Negative Discipline

Capaldi

Pears

Kerr

et al. 2007

J Abnorm Child Psychol

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Recent studies have found significant but relatively modest associations in parenting across generations, suggesting additional influences on parenting than experience in the family of origin. The present prospective, cross-generational study of at-risk men (Oregon Youth Study) focuses on fathers' negative discipline practices with their 2-to 3-year-old children. The theoretical model is based on a dynamic developmental systems approach to problematic family functioning, which points to the importance of developmental systems, including family risk context and key influential social interactional systems, and emphasizes influence that is directly pertinent to the outcome of interest. Path modeling indicated that the men's poor and harsh discipline practices were predicted by partners' problem behavior (substance use and antisocial behavior) and negative discipline practices, as well as by poor discipline experienced in the family of origin, men's own problem behavior, ages at which they became fathers, and family socioeconomic status were controlled. Findings indicate the importance of focusing on influence dynamics across parents.Keywords three generations; discipline; mothers; fathers; dynamic developmental systems It has long been assumed that many of the parenting behaviors we employ with our children were learned from our own parents (Caspi & Elder, 1988). Until recently, however, most evidence regarding this association came from retrospective studies (Covell, Grusec, & King, 1995;Olsen, Martin, & Halverson, 1999) or from studies in which one agent reported on more than one generation (e.g., Chassin, Presson, Todd, Rose, & Sherman, 1998;Chen & Kaplan, 2001). A number of recent studies using long-term prospective data sets with multiagent, multimethod designs have found significant associations between the parenting experienced as a child and the parenting practices later employed in the family of procreation. Notably, however, these associations have been relatively modest (Belsky, Jaffee, Sligo, Woodward, & Silva, 2005;Capaldi, Pears, Patterson, & Owen, 2003;Conger, Neppl, Kim, & Scaramella, 2003;Hops, Davis, Leve, & Sheeber, 2003;Smith & Farrington, 2004; Thornberry, FreemanGallant, Lizotte, Krohn, & Smith, 2003).The fact that the intergenerational association for parenting is limited when subjected to rigorous testing indicates that there are influences on parenting in addition to experiences in the family of origin. The availability of prospective intergenerational data allows for the opportunity to identify factors that influence early adults' parenting over and above the behavior modeled by their parents. The present study builds on a prior study (Capaldi et al., 2003) examining intergenerational continuity in parenting for an at-risk sample of young men (the Oregon Youth Study, OYS) by testing a theory-driven model of factors that may influence Corresponding author: Deborah M. Capaldi, Oregon Social Learning Center, 10 Shelton McMurphey Blvd., Eugene, OR 97401-4928, Phone: 541-485-2711, Fax...

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“…It also appears that active support and involvement during pregnancy are associated with lower levels of anxiety, and, for expectant fathers, represent the best means of coping with the stress of pregnancy (Teichman & Lahav, 1987). Couples who report high prenatal relationship quality (relationship satisfaction, communication, and interpersonal processes) also are more likely to remain involved in co-parenting (versus paternal disengagement) postpartally (Florsheim & Smith, 2005). How positively or negatively partners engage with one another tends to predict the quality of parenting and the parentchild relationship, and is referred to as the "spillover theory" (Krishnakumar & Buehler, 2000).…”

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