Prenatal program enhances couples’ co-parenting relationship, improves childhood outcomes!
Children whose parents participated in a prenatal program aimed at enhancing couples’ co-parenting relationship were better adjusted at age seven than children whose parents were assigned to a control group, according to Penn State researchers.
Teachers reported significantly better adjustment and positive school engagement among children whose parents received the intervention than in the control children, the researchers reported in the current issue of the Journal of Family Psychology.
“The Family Foundations program focuses on fostering positive co-parenting — that is, more cooperative and supportive teamwork between parents — because research shows such co-parenting can benefit children in many ways,” said Mark E. Feinberg, research professor of health and human development and senior scientist at the Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center for the Promotion of Human Development. “Parents who have better co-parenting relations feel more supported and confident, less stressed and depressed and they show more warmth and patience with their children.”(News Medical, 1)
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