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Research Indicates a Happy Parental Relationship is Positive for Children Regardless of Income, Marital Status, or Race/Ethnicity

From: Carol Emig <webmaster@childtrends.org>
Date: April 8, 2011 10:21:27 AM PDT
Subject: Research Indicates a Happy Parental Relationship is Positive for Children Regardless of Income, Marital Status, or Race/Ethnicity

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____________________________________________________________ April 8
, 2011

 

A new Child Trends brief finds that relationship quality between parents is consistently and positively
associated with better outcomes for children and families. This brief, Parental Relationship Quality and Child Outcomes across Subgroups, notes that the positive association holds across many subgroup comparisons, including income, marital status, parental education, and race/ethnicity
. These analyses were completed using data from the 2007 National Survey of Children's Health.  

 

Specifically, positive parental relationships are linked to:
  • reduced child behavior problems,
  • better child social competence,
  • greater child school engagement,
  • fewer child internalizing (depression) problems,
  • better parent-child communication, and
  • reduced feelings of aggravation by the parent

"Our research indicates that happy couple relationships are quite consistently related to better outcomes for children and families across all types of groups in the population," lead author Kristin A. Moore said. "Programs and policies that are able to improve relationship quality could have positive implications for children."
 
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Community-Centered Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education Strategies for Ex-Prisoners ACF 04/05/2011 93.086
Community-Centered Responsible Fatherhood Strategies for Re-Entering or Recently Released Fathers ACF 04/05/2011 93.086
Family Violence Prevention and Services Discretionary Grants: National and Special Issue Resource Centers ACF 04/05/2011 93.592
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