Parental Depression and Cooperative Coparenting: A Longitudinal and Dyadic Approach
ConclusionThe results not only highlight the importance of both parents' mental health on coparenting but also the added role that fathers' depression plays in shaping their own and their partners' perceptions of coparenting.
ImplicationsPolicy makers and family practitioners who are invested in building healthy families may find it valuable to screen for and treat mental illness in the context of creating programs to increase cooperative coparenting.
Source: Family Relations - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Deadric T. Williams Tags: Original Article Source Type: research