Dont have a baby!!!!

The anticipation of a child is a very serious matter in Marriage. The anticipation of one can easily manifest new conflicts or just new situations that prior to the child you would have never had. Many researchers have done work on this including (Katariina, Kaisa , Terhi , Erja , and Jarik , 2006). Through their research they discovered fascinating information. Ones that can better explain life and our relationships with our significant other.

Through the findings of, (Katariina, Kaisa , Terhi , Erja , and Jarik , 2006) they figured out that there is an effect in their marital satisfaction and depressive symptoms when anticipating a child. Their findings was that they usually go down when a pretty satisfied couple is anticipating a child being that its almost seen as a third party coming in and intruding onto a happy relationship. They also came to the conclusion that if you weren’t a happy couple, an anticipation of a child actually helps because they are given a common subject or situation to deal with.

(Hoffman and Levant, 1985) also gave very good findings on children anticipation. One difference then (Katariina, Kaisa , Terhi , Erja , and Jarik , 2006) research was that they worked with an control group. There focus was more of how different are these two types of marriage. What they found out was that there was really no big difference with the exception of marital adjustment. They found that non-child anticipating couples had a better marital adjustment.

These two articles relate with how they went about researching and the findings. Both were done through surveys but then (Katariina, Kaisa , Terhi , Erja , and Jarik , 2006) was more of a longitudinal study. Their findings were similar in the effects that child anticipation showed that most happy couples tend to have a drop in marital satisfaction, and when you look at the comparative article and find out that when anticipating for a baby usually makes it a lot more difficult to have a good adjustment in marital relationships, well then it makes sense why their marital satisfaction goes down. I concluded through the results of both test that not being able to have a good marital adjustment, as a parent will affect your marital relationship. So basically having a baby is a horrible idea as a loving couple.