Reduced incidence of parenting inadequacy following rooming-in.
Low-income mother-infant pairs were randomly assigned to rooming-in (N = 143) or to routine (N = 158) postpartum contact to determine whether rooming-in affects subsequent adequacy in parenting. At mean age 17 months, two rooming-in and ten control children had experienced inadequate parenting. One rooming-in and eight control children were hospitalized for these problems. One rooming-in and five control families were reported to Protective Services for mistreatment of the study child; five control and no rooming-in children were in the care of adults other than their parents at the time of data analysis. In this study, rooming-in correlated with fewer subsequent cases of parenting inadequacy.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007182:Income; D007223:Infant; D007224:Infant Care; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D012386:Rooming-in Care