Eat, Save, and Be Healthy

Want to help your child? Invest in Healthy Relationships.

newby.17 | June 14, 2011

A new research brief from Child Trends reinforces what research has been saying for years- healthy and happy parental relationships lead to better outcomes for children. For years researchers have been coming to the conclusion that higher relationships quality between parents leads to many better child and parental outcomes including:

less child behavior problems
higher child social competence
better child school engagement
lower child internalizing behaviors (such as depression)
better parent-child communication, and
lower parental feelings of aggravation

Many of the previous studies looked at primarily middle income, caucasian families, however, and researchers wanted to know if these same results could be fo

und in more diverse families. The result? The findings held true for all families and children including: white, black and hispanic couples, married and co-habitating couples, boys and girls, older and younger children, across education levels, and across income levels.

So what does this mean? Life can get so busy with the rush of children, school, activities, and well… just LIFE. But it really is worth it…for the sake of your children…to invest in a quality partnership between you and your co-parent. Go on a date, go for a run, or curl up and watch a good movie with your partner. Though it may be hard to just focus on you and your partner, this is an investment with high returns!

To read the full report click here.