Parenthood Is Associated With Greater Well-Being for Fathers Than Mothers

Depressive Symptoms among Mothers and Fathers in Early Parenthood

Kerstis, B. 2015. Depressive Symptoms among Mothers and Fathers in Early Parenthood. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 1060. 75 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-554-9125-3. Aims: The overall aims were to study depressive symptoms among mothers and fathers in early parenthood and how depressive symptoms are related to dy...

Single Parenthood and Children's Well-being (pdf)

The ability to regulate emotion is associated with greater well-being, income, and socioeconomic status.

Are people who are best able to implement strategies to regulate their emotional expressive behavior happier and more successful than their counterparts? Although past research has examined individual variation in knowledge of the most effective emotion regulation strategies, little is known about how individual differences in the ability to actually implement these strategies, as assessed obje...

Combined effect of mothers' and fathers' mental health symptoms on children's behavioral and emotional well-being.

BACKGROUND Few studies have examined the effects on children of maternal mental health symptoms other than depressive symptoms or have examined the joint effects of mothers' and fathers' mental health symptoms. OBJECTIVE To examine whether the father's mental health symptoms may modify the association between the mother's mental health and the child's behavioral and emotional health. METHOD...

Child support and the postdivorce economic well-being of mothers, fathers, and children.

This article provides national estimates of the current and potential impact of private child support transfers on the economic well-being of custodial and noncustodial families following marital dissolution. Mothers and children fare dramatically worse than fathers after marital dissolution; these differences, however, would be much more pronounced in the absence of private child support. Simu...