This study examines the instability in post-divorce child residence arrangements over a 10-year period and its impact on children's socioemotional difficulties.
Background
The increase in shared residence arrangements (joint physical custody) has led to renewed interest in understanding how children fare in different post-divorce residence arrangements. These arrangements may, however, change as circumstances likely change after divorce, potentially affecting children's well-being.
Method
Data from the “New Families in the Netherlands” survey covering three waves over 10 years after union dissolution were used. The sample included parents who divorced or separated from cohabitation in 2010. We used multiple linear regression analyses to estimate the association between instability in child residence and parent-reported socioemotional difficulties of children aged 4–17 years.
Results
Instability in child residence arrangements was not uncommon, with nearly one-third of parents reporting change within 10 years. Sole mother residence was the most common and stable arrangement, while shared residence showed the highest instability. Instability was associated with increased child difficulties. Sole-to-sole residence changes had the strongest impact, while stable shared residence was associated with the least child difficulties.
Conclusion
The study highlights the prevalence of instability in post-divorce residence arrangements and its negative impact on children's well-being. Our study nuances previous findings on the benefits of shared residence by showing that it is especially stable shared residence that benefits children.
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Eivor Fredriksen, Tilmann von Soest, Mona Bekkhus, Hedvig Svendsrud, Lars Smith, Torill Sundet Siqveland, Vibeke Moe
Objective
Aiming to broaden our understanding of parental gender differences within the framework of attachment theory, this study explores how parents' prenatal attachment styles relate to parenting stress, parent–infant interaction, and paternity leave, by investigating how attachment styles and gender interact to predict parenting outcomes.
Background
The attachment system is at the core of parental adjustments during the perinatal period, underscored by the interplay between attachment styles and caregiving behavior. Yet, gender differences in these associations remain poorly understood, despite variations in parenting roles.
Methods
Families (N = 1036) participating in a prospective community-based study in Norway reported adult attachment orientations during pregnancy. Postnatal data included self-reported parenting stress, observed mother–infant/father–infant interactions, and paternal parental leave uptake. A path analysis was carried out, using multigroup comparisons to investigate parental gender differences.
Results
Prenatal adult attachment avoidance and anxiety predicted higher parenting stress (range: β = 0.12–0.38), and attachment avoidance predicted higher father–infant interactional difficulties postnatally (β = 0.35). Fathers' attachment insecurities were related to lower uptake of paternity leave through indirect pathways with a small effect size. Associations between attachment avoidance and all parenting outcomes were consistently stronger for fathers than mothers.
Conclusion
Adult attachment styles among expectant parents are associated with a diverse range of parenting outcomes, with findings revealing gendered patterns in the links between adult attachment and caregiving systems during the perinatal period.
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This article aims to understand how relationship status is associated with earnings among LGB people.
Background
Previous research has found that marriage is related to higher earnings for men and lower earnings for women, but has not often considered whether this holds across different sexual identities.
Method
We use the longitudinal Understanding Society data from the UK to show how the earnings of LGB individuals are associated with relationship status (single, non-residential partner, residential partner, married).
Results
Cohabiting or married men generally earn more compared to single men, regardless of sexual identity. However, gay men's earnings only increase after marrying, whereas heterosexual and bisexual men's earnings increase after entering any co-residential relationship. This suggests that gay men might receive more social support or employer approval after entering a normative relationship form. Heterosexual women start earning less after marriage, whereas the impact of changes in relationship status on earnings is relatively small and non-significant for bisexual and lesbian women. These results are largely explained by paid and unpaid work hours, suggesting that the division of labor within relationships lowers earnings among heterosexual women but not among LGB women.
Conclusion
LGB women's earnings depend relatively little on changes in relationship status. At the same time, gay men only receive premiums related to having a partner once they marry.
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We explore how incarcerated brothers experience support from their non-incarcerated siblings.
Background
Sibling incarceration is the most common type of family member incarceration, with more than one-quarter of U.S. adults enduring a sibling's incarceration (and, most commonly, a brother's incarceration). Despite the prevalence of sibling incarceration and the importance of sibling relationships throughout the life course, little is known about sibling support in the context of incarceration from the receiver's perspective (or other family members' perspectives).
Method
We use longitudinal in-depth interviews with 122 incarcerated adult brothers and 69 of their mothers to explore how system-impacted families negotiate non-incarcerated sibling support.
Results
We find that incarcerated brothers and their mothers describe navigating four types of sibling support: (1) unconditional, intrinsic support to incarcerated brothers and other family members shaped by cultural expectations of family reliance; (2) mediated, reluctant support to incarcerated brothers prompted by mothers; (3) disengaged, infrequent support to incarcerated brothers due to constraints and/or to protect themselves; and (4) absent, no support to incarcerated brothers because siblings have grown tired of their brothers cycling through the criminal legal system.
Conclusion
We advance scholarship on criminal legal contact and family life by documenting how incarcerated brothers experience support from their non-incarcerated siblings and highlight the considerable and enduring consequences of incarceration for the entire family system.
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Claramae Seow, Mioko Sudo, Yena Kyeong, Helen Chen, Michelle Z. L. Kee, Michael J. Meaney, Anne Rifkin-Graboi, Evelyn C. Law, Yap Seng Chong, Henning Tiemeier, Peipei Setoh
Objective
To identify parenting profiles among Singaporean mothers of young children and to examine the longitudinal implications of these profiles for children's well-being during middle childhood.
Background
The universality of traditional parenting styles (e.g., authoritative, authoritarian), established in Western contexts, and their implications for child well-being, has been called into question, with studies conducted with Asian populations suggesting these styles may not be universally applicable.
Method
Our sample consisted of 411 mother–child dyads drawn from a prebirth cohort in Singapore, where mothers reported on their parenting at child age 4.5 years, and children reported on their evaluation of their mothers' parenting and their own depressive symptoms at ages 9 and 10 years, respectively.
Results
Three latent class profiles of maternal parenting emerged at child age 4.5 years: Supportive (high use of supportive practices and low use of harsh practices), Supportive-Harsh (high use of both supportive and harsh practices), and Unsupportive (moderate use of both supportive and harsh practices). Children of Unsupportive mothers reported greater maternal indifference at age 9 years and depressive symptoms at age 10 years compared to children of Supportive or Supportive-Harsh mothers. Children's evaluation of maternal indifference mediated the association between early maternal parenting profiles and later child depressive symptoms.
Conclusion
Our findings highlight the variation in parenting profiles in Singapore from well-established parenting styles, and the greater implications of supportive, compared to harsh, parenting practices for children's well-being.
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Emmi Lindroos, Eija Räikkönen, Kaisa Malinen, Liana Leach, Marisa Matias, Anna K. Rönkä
Objective
To investigate whether parents' prenatal expectations of coparenting predict their own and their spouse's postnatal coparenting quality, both at the individual level and in terms of daily variability, and whether prenatal psychological distress at the family level moderates these associations.
Background
Previous research has shown a link between prenatal and postnatal coparenting, and between poorer coparenting and psychological distress. However, few studies have examined whether prenatal coparenting expectations impact both the level and variability of postnatal coparenting quality or consider psychological distress as a moderator of early coparenting development.
Method
The coparenting relationship was examined with a longitudinal design that utilized survey data and daily diary data among 144 Finnish couples expecting their first child, through 6 months post-birth. Structural equation modeling was used to estimate both one's own (actor) and their spouse's (partner) associations between prenatal expectations of coparenting (measured by the CRS-CPV) and postnatal coparenting (as measured by the D-COP), and how prenatal psychological distress (assessed using the MHI-5) might moderate these associations.
Results
Parents' prenatal expectations of coparenting predicted level of their own postnatal coparenting, but little of the variability in daily postnatal coparenting quality. Family's prenatal psychological distress shaped some associations between prenatal and postnatal coparenting. No gender differences were found.
Conclusion
These findings shed light on the importance of both parents' prenatal expectations as an early indicator of coparenting and the risks of prenatal psychological distress for the later development of coparenting in early parenthood, even among parents with nonclinical levels of distress.
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Matthew R. Wright, Susan L. Brown, Wendy D. Manning, Madelyn Flowers, Jenna M. Ward
Objective
This study examined age variation in relationship quality and stability, plans to marry, and reasons to cohabit among cohabiting adults in the United States.
Background
The landscape of cohabitation has changed in the past few decades as cohabitation has surged among older adults even as it has plateaued among younger people. Early research revealed key age-related variations in the meaning and relationship dynamics of cohabiting unions, but whether these patterns persist nowadays remains an empirical question.
Method
Data were drawn from the nationally representative 2013 Families and Relationships Survey. The analytic sample was composed of cohabiting adults aged 18–65. Multivariable models investigated age group differences in relationship quality and stability, plans to marry, and reasons to cohabit net of relationship, demographic, and economic factors.
Results
As expected, relationship quality and stability tended to be higher among older than younger cohabitors. Older cohabitors were the least likely to have plans to marry and to view testing marital compatibility as an important reason for cohabiting.
Conclusion
Cohabitation appears to operate differently across the adult life course, functioning primarily as a prelude to marriage or an alternative to singlehood earlier in the life course versus an alternative to marriage in later life.
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This dyadic study examined how childhood sexual abuse is associated with cognitive, affective, and behavioral responses anticipated in reaction to different types of hypothetical partner touch.
Background
Trauma theories contend that childhood sexual abuse is associated with long-term relational challenges, including difficulties with intimacy and physical touch. Touch plays a central role in fostering connection and well-being in couples, but individuals with a history of childhood sexual abuse and their partner may react differently to touch from a romantic partner.
Method
A convenience sample of 363 couples (n = 695 participants) mostly living in Canada completed self-report measures assessing perceptions of sexual intent, anticipated negative affect, and behavioral avoidance in response to hypothetical scenarios depicting affectionate, sexual, or no-touch. Actor-partner interdependence models examined the associations between a person's childhood sexual abuse and both partners' responses to touch.
Results
Individuals with higher childhood sexual abuse frequency anticipated greater negative affect and behavioral avoidance in response to hypothetical sexual touch, but lower avoidance in response to hypothetical affectionate touch. In the hypothetical no-touch condition, individuals with higher CSA frequency anticipated higher negative affect and men perceived greater sexual intent. Moreover, partners of individuals with higher CSA frequency reported expecting greater negative affect and perceived greater sexual intent.
Conclusion
Childhood sexual abuse may shape how partners interpret touch, suggesting that while sexual touch may be distressing, affectionate touch could play a role in rebuilding intimacy via lower avoidance.
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Konrad Piotrowski, Moïra Mikolajczak, Isabelle Roskam
Objective
This study examines the longitudinal and reciprocal relationships between parenthood regret and parental burnout.
Background
Parenthood regret and parental burnout are increasingly recognized as common, yet distinct forms of negative parental experiences with potentially severe consequences for family wellbeing. Prior research has primarily studied these constructs separately, providing limited insight into how they mutually reinforce one another over time.
Method
Two longitudinal studies were conducted involving parents from Poland (Study 1; N = 1275, emerging adults, convenience sample, 12-month duration) and primarily the United Kingdom and United States (Study 2; N = 1545, diverse ages, convenience sample, 8-month duration). Parenthood regret and parental burnout were assessed using validated self-report measures administered at three intervals; data were analyzed using cross-lagged panel models (CLPM) and random-intercept cross-lagged panel models (RI-CLPM).
Results
Findings indicated reciprocal associations at the between-person level: parents experiencing higher parental burnout reported increased parenthood regret over time and vice versa. At the within-person level, however, only increases in parenthood regret consistently predicted subsequent increases in parental burnout; the reverse direction was not supported.
Conclusion
Parenthood regret and parental burnout are reciprocally linked at the between-person level, while parenthood regret appears to play a particularly significant role at the within-person developmental level.
Implications
Results underscore the need for interventions addressing parenthood regret concerns to reduce long-term burnout risks.
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Alessandro Ferrara, Jan P. Heisig, Jonas Radl, Alena Scheinert
<div> <section> <h3> Objective</h3> <p>To investigate the impact of various parental health shocks, including parental death, on young adults' life satisfaction and mental health, personality traits, as well as NEET status (i.e., being neither in employment, education, nor training).</p> </section> <section> <h3> Background</h3> <p>Theoretical considerations and previous cross-sectional studies suggest that parental health problems negatively affect child outcomes and may play an important role in the intergenerational transmission of inequality. Evidence remains limited, however, and several studies have found no or negligible effects when using designs that address unobserved confounding. Prior studies tend to investigate only a small set of parental shocks and child outcomes simultaneously, rarely having follow-up periods beyond adolescence, and disproportionately focus on the Nordic countries.</p> </section> <section> <h3> Method</h3> <p>We use data from the 1991–2021 waves of the nationally representative German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to investigate the impact of a wide range of parental health shocks (extended hospitalization, cancer, stroke, cardiac disease, depression, death). Child outcomes are assessed at ages 17 to 25 and include measures of life satisfaction, mental health, personality (locus of control, Big Five), and NEET status. We implement pooled cross-sectional analyses conditioning on key observables as well as longitudinal individual and family fixed effects regressions to account for unobserved confounding.</p> </section> <section> <h3> Results</h3> <p>Cross-sectional results show that parental health shocks are associated with lower child life satisfaction and mental health, increased NEET risks, as well as higher neuroticism and a more external locus of control, but none of the other personality outcomes. Associations appear to be mostly due to confounding, however, since coefficients are strongly attenuated in longitudinal fixed effects models and only the associations with NEET status remain statistically significant.</p> </section> <section> <h3> Conclusion</h3> <p>Children in Germany appear mostly resilient against serious parental health shocks. Although associations between parental health and child outcomes seem to be largely driven by selection effects, both parental and child health may still play an important role in the intergenerational transmission of inequality, for example, by mediating the effects of shar
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