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…

Considerable debate exists regarding whether religiousness promotes or impedes greater father involvement in parenting. Our study addresses this issue using a Midwestern longitudinal data set that tracks the transition to first parenthood for 169 married couples. We focus on performance of the "messier" tasks of infant care. We find little…

Examined whether witnessing or experiencing parental violence was related to physical abuse during courtship. Findings from biracial sample of 536 college students provided inconsistent support for modeling of parental behaviors during courtship. Witnessing parental violence was positively related to reporting violence against girlfriends for…

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…

Examines hypothesis that stepfamilies experience more marital conflict than do biological families. Measured remarriage's and stepchildren's impact on marital conflict frequency. Findings suggest that remarriage and stepchildren are not necessarily associated with more frequent marital conflict and that stepchildren's effect varied depending on…