This book presents cutting-edge research and theory on couple relationships, with an emphasis on the implications for child development. It demonstrates the influence of couple relationships on parenting processes and child development; explores the determinants of couple functioning, relationship satisfaction, and relationship stability; and, details the mechanisms by which marital difficulties impact children's development and functioning.
Tracing the development of the couples and family research tradition : the enduring contributions of Philip and Carolyn Pape Cowan / Ross D. Parke, Marc S. Schulz, Marsha Kline Pruett [and others] -- Identifying the dynamic processes underlying links between marital conflict and child adjustment / E. Mark Cummings and Christine E. Merrilees -- Capturing young children's perceptions of marital conflict / Jennifer C. Ablow and Jeffrey R. Measelle -- Ties that bind : triangulation, boundary dissolution, and the effects of interparental conflict on child development / Patricia K. Kerig and Julie A. Swanson -- Shared child rearing in nuclear, fragile, and kinship family systems : evolution, dilemmas, and promise of a coparenting framework / James P. McHale -- Marital satisfaction across the transition to parenthood : three eras of research / Erika Lawrence, Alexia D. Rothman, Rebecca J. Cobb [and others] -- An integrative and developmental perspective for understanding romantic relationship quality during the transition to parenthood / Holly Hatton, Rand D. Conger, Dannelle Larsen-Rife [and others] -- Capturing the elusive : studying emotion processes in couple relationships / Marc S. Schulz and Robert J. Waldinger -- Attachment perspectives on couple functioning and couples intervention / Christopher Clulow -- A new couples approach to interventions for the transition to parenthood / John Gottman, Julie Gottman, and Alyson Shapiro -- Effectively intervening with divorcing parents and their children : what works and how it works / Marsha Kline Pruett and Ryan Kerry Barker -- A specialty clinic model for clinical science training : translating couples research into practice in the Berkley couples clinic / Robert W. Levenson, Carolyn Pape Cowan, and Philip A. Cowan -- How working with couples fosters children's development : from prevention science to public policy / Philip A. Cowan and Carolyn Pape Cown -- Coda : looking to the future / Marc S. Schulz, Marsha Kline Pruett, Patricia K. Kerig [and others].