Elizabeth Marquardt & W. Bradford Wilcox: How to Keep Parenthood From Making Your Marriage Miserable | The Atlantic

Elizabeth Marquardt & W. Bradford Wilcox at The Atlantic: These modern day portraits of parenthood raise vital questions: Do women and men today experience parenthood differently depending on whether they are married or unmarried? And, if they are married, is parenthood itself an obstacle to a good marriage? In a new report “When Baby Makes Three: How Parenthood Makes Life Meaningful and How Marriage Makes Parenthood Bearable” (PDF), just published in the latest issue of the State of Our Unions, we examined nationally-representative survey data, including a new, nationally-representative study of more than 1,400 married couples (18-46), to respond to these questions.