Coparenting: A link between marital conflict and parenting in two-parent families.

Margolin, Gayla; Gordis, Elana B.; John, Richard S.

doi:10.1037/0893-3200.15.1.3

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“…Very few studies have traced links between adult personality traits and coparenting at all, and those that have (Talbot&McHale, 2004;Van Egeren, 2003) have asked how individual personality traits might influence coparenting. But aside from studies examining how coparenting solidarity affects parenting behavior (e.g., Floyd et al, 1998;Margolin, Gordis, & John, 2001), investigators have not asked the reverse question-how having and raising children together might induce personality change and adult development.…”

Section: Coparenting Relationships and Adult Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Growing Points for Coparenting Theory and Research

McHale

Kuersten‐Hogan

Rao

2004

Journal of Adult Development

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Though the study of coparenting is still in its infancy, an explosion of coparenting research is in the wings. This paper identifies several emerging issues in coparenting theory and research to guide work in the years ahead, including issues in definition, conceptualization, and measurement; the interface between coparenting and adult development; and conceptual benefits that will accrue from studies of interadult coordination across diverse cultures and family systems. We emphasize that theory must lead empirical efforts, that across family systems the strongest coparental alliances are likely to be those in which the coparents both experience and provide support and solidarity for one another's parenting efforts with the children, and that measurement approaches need to be expanded so as to capture more comprehensively each family's organizational cooparenting structures and themes.

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Section: Coparenting Relationships and Adult Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Growing Points for Coparenting Theory and Research

McHale

Kuersten‐Hogan

Rao

2004

Journal of Adult Development

185

119

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“…Indeed, increasing evidence highlights that family environment and the quality of parents' relationship with each other following separation may be more important predictors of childhood adjustment than parental separation per se (4). In particular, having parents who can communicate and cooperate in jointly attending to a child's care following separation may protect against adverse psychosocial outcomes in the years following the separation (25)(26)(27)(28). Furthermore, compared with individuals who report poorer childhood family environments, individuals who report more family cohesion and less parental conflict following childhood parental separation endorse fewer health complaints and show decreased risk of morbidity and mortality during adulthood (29,30).…”

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Offspring of parents who were separated and not speaking to one another have reduced resistance to the common cold as adults

Murphy

Cohen

Janicki-Deverts

et al. 2017

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Exposure to parental separation or divorce during childhood has been associated with an increased risk for physical morbidity during adulthood. Here we tested the hypothesis that this association is primarily attributable to separated parents who do not communicate with each other. We also examined whether early exposure to separated parents in conflict is associated with greater viral-induced inflammatory response in adulthood and in turn with increased susceptibility to viral-induced upper respiratory disease. After assessment of their parents' relationship during their childhood, 201 healthy volunteers, age 18-55 y, were quarantined, experimentally exposed to a virus that causes a common cold, and monitored for 5 d for the development of a respiratory illness. Monitoring included daily assessments of viral-specific infection, objective markers of illness, and local production of proinflammatory cytokines. Adults whose parents lived apart and never spoke during their childhood were more than three times as likely to develop a cold when exposed to the upper respiratory virus than adults from intact families. Conversely, individuals whose parents were separated but communicated with each other showed no increase in risk compared with those from intact families. These differences persisted in analyses adjusted for potentially confounding variables (demographics, current socioeconomic status, body mass index, season, baseline immunity to the challenge virus, affectivity, and childhood socioeconomic status). Mediation analyses were consistent with the hypothesis that greater susceptibility to respiratory infectious illness among the offspring of noncommunicating parents was attributable to a greater local proinflammatory response to infection.parental divorce | childhood adversity | adult health | cold susceptibility | inflammation

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“…Such a finding supported earlier works of Bean et al (2006), Milevsky et al (2006) and Silva et al (2007) where parenting was measured separately for each parent. However, studies conducted by Margolin et al (2001) and McHale et al (2002) demonstrated the need to conceptualise parenting as interdependent concept where relationship between mothers' and fathers' parenting practices were presented as an important contribution to children's functioning, perhaps more important than the individual contributions of mothers' or fathers' parenting styles. Hence, it is necessary to understand that both parents are equally important and have a role to play in supporting their children autonomy and self-reliance.…”

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confidence: 99%