Pets’ growing role in family dynamics creates questions about resources pets may provide in parenthood motivation. Pet ownership has been suggested in the literature as an antecedent to parenthood in terms of developing skills needed to rear offspring, nurturance, and responsibility. Participants (N = 118) who were pet owners, completed an online survey that recorded demographics and consisted ...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to investigate possible predictors of irrational parenthood cognitions among infertile women seeking treatment. METHODS In a cross-sectional study, 300 women who visited an Infertility Center in Iran during 2010 were studied. A pre-validated inventory was used to assess irrational parenthood cognitions. Potential predictors of the total irrational parentho...

Texas is the petri dish of sorts for the anti-Planned Parenthood movement. Efforts to restrict Planned Parenthood funding there date back to 2011, when the legislature directed the state's Medicaid waiver program, the Women's Health Program, to exclude Planned Parenthood affiliates from its funding.

Cystic Fibrosis is often diagnosed during the first few weeks or months of a young person’s life, occurring within context families adapting to parenthood, family identity development and nurturing secure attachment. Having new-born baby with chronic health condition adds this time transition. A literature search revealed sparse research into lived experiences parents time. Therefore, current s...

This longitudinal study examined how relative contributions to the division of childcare are related to individual and relational outcomes across the first 2 years of the transition to parenthood. Data were collected from a large sample of first-time parents 6 weeks before the birth of their child and then at 6, 12, 18, and 24 months postpartum. The results revealed that certain individual diff...

In this longitudinal study, we followed a large sample of first-time parents (both partners) across the first 2 years of the transition to parenthood. Guided by attachment theory (Bowlby, 1969), we tested several predictions about how attachment anxiety and avoidance are related to the incidence, maintenance, increase, and decline of depressive symptoms in both sexes across the first 2 years of...