Division of Labor and Working-Class Women's Well-Being Across the Transition to Parenthood.

Division of labor and working-class women's well-being across the transition to parenthood.

This study examines the degree to which the division of household and child-care tasks predicts working-class women's well-being across the transition to parenthood. Women completed questionnaires about the division of labor and their well-being before the birth of their first child and upon returning to work. Results showed that violated expectations regarding the division of child care were a...

Dishes and Diapers: The Division of Labor and Marital Quality across the Transition to Parenthood

The division of labor and perceptions of parental roles: Lesbian couples across the transition to parenthood

No research has examined the division of labor across the transition to parenthood for same-sex couples. The current study examined the division of labor in 29 lesbian couples (58 women) during the transition to parenthood. Women were interviewed during their last trimester and 3–4 months postnatally. Two theoretical approaches – gender theory and economic theory – were used to generate competi...

The transition to parenthood and well-being: the impact of partner status and work hour transitions.

Using data from the first two waves of the Netherlands Kinship Panel Study for 338 women and 262 men, we examine the consequences of making the transition to parenthood for life satisfaction, loneliness, positive affect, negative affect, and partnership satisfaction. We extend previous work by taking transitions in partner status and work hours into account. Results show a moderate impact of be...

Marital satisfaction across the transition to parenthood.

The purpose of the present study was to discriminate between the 2 dominant perspectives governing research on the nature of marital change over the transition to parenthood. Progress can be made in understanding this transition by recognizing the role of uncontrolled sources of variability in research designs, defining and using control groups, and timing of data collection around the child's ...