Being a good partner may make you a better parent, according to a new study. The same set of skills that we tap to be caring toward our partners is what we use to nurture our children, researchers found.
The study sought to examine how caregiving plays out in families – “how one relationship affects another relationship,” says Abigail Millings of the University of Bristol, lead author of the work published online this week in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. “We wanted to see how romantic relationships between parents might be associated with what kind of parents they are.” Previous research had looked at similar caregiving processes within romantic relationships or between parents and children, but rarely for both groups. “Our work is the first to look at romantic caregiving and parenting styles at the same time,” Millings says.
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