• Marriage and Parent–Child Relationships

Marriage and Parent–Child Relationships

A strong and secure family produces strong and secure children.
A secure family forges strong bonds between its members and resolves its conflicts in a congenial and consensual manner.
A child learns from its parents as to how to handle stress, conflicts and view relationships in its own world full of interactions.

A strife torn marriage and stress filled home atmosphere, parental conflicts, parental discipline, effect of other factors like the presence of in-laws, work pressure, financial status all make their impact on the emotinal and cognitive and behavioural development of a child.

Here is a link to an interesting article studying Marriage and Parent-child Relationships.

"how marital relationships affect other family relationships and the social and emotional development of young children. Marital relationships can support or undermine the parenting of young children and are themselves affected by parenting"