Role of Marital Adjustment in Associations Between Romantic Attachment and Coparenting

ConclusionResults highlight the benefit of conceptualizing parental attachment, marital, and coparental subsystems within a systemic framework and suggest that a healthy marital relationship is an important intervening factor that helps explain links between attachment security and the coparenting alliance.
ImplicationsFindings underscore the importance of evaluating and treating multiple levels of the family system and suggest that therapeutic treatment of the marital relationship may be associated with a healthier coparenting dynamic.

Source: Family Relations - February 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Michelle Young, Shelley Riggs, Patricia Kaminski Tags: Original Article Source Type: research