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Parenting: Science and Practice

Volume 3, Number 2, April-June 2003

REVIEW

The Internal Structure and Ecological Context of Coparenting: A Framework for Research  and Intervention
Mark E. Feinberg

The coparenting relationship is presented as a multi-component construct that plays a central role in the network of pathways connecting individual, family, and extra-familial factors to parenting and child adjustment.

EMPIRICAL REPORTS

Worried and Blue: Mild Parental Anxiety and Depression in Relation to the Development of Young Children's Temperament and Behavior Problems
Amy E.West and Denise L. Newman

Elements of parents' normal experience of "bad mood" may have a significant relation to their developing child's personality and behavior, and the difficult behavior displayed by children may be directly related to the kinds of symptoms parents are experiencing.

Adolescents' Willingness to Forgive Their Parents: An Empirical Model
F. Giorgia Paleari, Camillo Regalia, and Frank D. Fincham

Response to parental transgressions from north Italian adolescents supported a model in which the quality of the parent-adolescent relationship predicted benign attributions for negative parent behavior that, in turn, related to forgiving directly and indirectly through affective reactions to the behavior.

BOOK REVIEW

Joined at the Heart: The Transformation of the American Family by Al Gore and Tipper Gore
Richard M. Lerner