Marital disharmony four and a half years post partum. Effects on parent-child relationships and child development.
This longitudinal study of primiparous women concerns factors related to the quality of the marital relationship 4 1/2 years after the birth of the first child. Information was independently collected from the women, their husbands and children. A poor relationship to the partner and impaired mental health in the women post partum were associated with marital disharmony at follow-up. In disharmonious marriages more often than in others parents were estimated to have a rejecting attitude towards their child and the child to have a rejecting attitude towards its parents. Further, in these marriages poor parental relationships of boys were more common than those of girls and socially immature boys as compared to socially immature girls overrepresented.
D002657:Child Development; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005219:Father-Child Relations; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage; D008603:Mental Health; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D049590:Postpartum Period; D011247:Pregnancy; D012737:Sex Factors; D012919:Social Behavior; D013060:Speech