This study of 164 married couples examined longitudinal links between parents' perceptions of coparenting support and undermining by spouse at 6 months postpartum and infant behaviour problems at the age of 12 months after controlling for marital quality, individual parenting, and infant temperament. Multiple methods (i.e. parent reports and…

Children's time use--and specifically the time they spend on household chores--is an important arena for understanding social change. However, few studies accurately depict the multiple factors influencing children's household labor, including parent's and children's available time and parent's levels of work/family stress. We address these gaps…

Studies the notion that mothers have more difficulty parenting stepchildren than biological children. Concludes stepmothers are more likely than stepfathers to experience difficulty rearing stepchildren than biological children. When stepparents add new biological children to their stepfamilies, stepmothers and stepfathers find it difficult to…