Not in Front of the Kids: Documenting the Emotional Toll of Parental Tension looks at John Gottman’s latest research, looking at parental stress and its effects on children.
The effects aren’t good, of course, but this statistic jumped out as one of those “big hairy moose” issues everyone ignores:
Such stresses are all too common; 67% of new parents experience a drop in marital satisfaction after the baby is born, his research shows.