FCST 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Postpartum Depression
11 Nov 2016
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Chapter 11: nurturing and socializing children: a period of family transitions. Characterized as a crisis and a major stressor. (cid:498)can a baby break a marriage? (cid:499) (cid:498)fatherhood as a precipitant of mental illness(cid:499) Commercials of parents and their children smiling and. Rewards are greater than the costs, it makes it worth it spending time together, and other media putting forth stories focusing on increasing costs of raising children and the negative effects of having children on a marriage. Data collection at 5 points, prenatally, 3, 9, 12 and 24 months after birth. The transition to parenthood results in a decline of marital satisfaction. According to the text there is inconsistency with these results stating communication. Patterns emerge with regard to love, ambivalence, conflict and that marital satisfaction declines regardless of the presence of children children are launched into young adulthood) Where the satisfaction goes back up (usually when their. Less love, more ambivalence and conflict and less communication.
