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Child Development and the Parental Relationship

Essential Parenting, 2010
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Excerpt: As most parents have discovered, having a child, particularly in the early years, puts enormous stress on even the best of relationships, with resulting tensions, frustrations and discord. Few fail to notice the negative effects such tensions have on their child, and on their ability to optimally parent their child. And yet, pervasive as this problem is, most of the parenting literature focuses on how an individual parent should relate to the child, and very little is said about how a parent should relate to the other parent, or about how the parents’ relationship with each other affects the child. This post will take a brief look at how parents’ relationship with each other affects their child’s development, and at how important it is to make the parents’ relationship with each other a high priority.