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Patterns of coparenting and young children

Schoppe-Sullivan, Wang, Yang, Kim, Zhang, & Yoon (2023) published “Patterns of Coparenting and Young Children's Social–Emotional Adjustment in Low-income Families” in Child Development. I am providing a long summary here, first from the abstract and research summary, with some points in bold:

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The interplay between father–adolescent phenotypic resemblance and interparental conflict in predicting harsh discipline

Platts, Sturge-Apple, Davies & Martin (2022) published “The Interplay Between Father–Adolescent Phenotypic Resemblance and Interparental Conflict in Predicting Harsh Discipline” in Journal of Family Psychology. I found this study intriguing because I have often heard people make judgments about a child that project qualities from the parent the child most resembles.

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