Changes With The Arrival of Children
Five domains of change have been identified in new parents by Carolyn and Phillip Cowan with the arrival of new children.
- Identity and inner life changes is when parents no longer only think of themselves. Priorities and personal values change with an addition of a child in their life.
- Shifts within marital roles and relationships are changes in how couples divide tasks and responsibilities. Because of the fatigue associated with new children relationship quality may diminish.
- Shifts in intergenerational relationships occur when becoming new parents alters the relationship between themselves and their own parents.
- Changes in roles and relationships outside of the family is when becoming a new parent changes relationships at work or in friendships. New children hold all priority and so other aspects of life and relationships are sometimes put on hold or the relationship is altered.
- New parenting roles and relationships is the agreeable division of childcare among partners.
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