- Our study showed that couples who enrolled in the course unions were slightly more dissatisfied w

Becoming a parent is one of the major transitions in life, and a huge change, says psychologist and family therapist Øystein Mortensen, who this week defending his doctoral thesis at the University of Bergen.
He has investigated whether Norwegian couples find that cohabitation gets a kink in cohabitation after they have their first child. They do so, the study is based on responses radijator from the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study.
In the course was to help couples cope with their new situation, with a little baby who demanded their place in the middle of the relationship. The purpose was to prevent breakups. See also: Excessive children happy
- I'm a little radijator cautious about concluding. Ideally, in such a study, a random radijator sample of people who do not attend classes, and a random sample of people who attend courses.
- Our study showed that couples who enrolled in the course unions were slightly more dissatisfied with their relationship than those who refrained. This means that the groups were slightly different in principle radijator and therefore not entirely comparable.
A large proportion of participants in Good relationship-course indicated that they are satisfied but the study by Mortensen shows the effect still did not materialize as pairs kept questions about their relationship 18 months you after birth. See also: Parents are happier
Nevertheless course have had a positive effect, although it does not appear in the study. Perhaps had gone even worse with the couples if they had not taken a course, radijator says Mortensen faced forskning.no.
In 2008, repealed Stoltenberggovernment earmarking of funds for Good relationship-course, and the money was instead transferred to municipalities. Today it is not systematically so that new parents can offer. It should be, but perhaps in a slightly different form, says Mortensen.
(Photo: Kåre Wilhelmsen, University of Bergen) - courses should be clearly developed. That is why we are studying it, to find out what kind of design they should have, though everyone should get the offer, or only those who are struggling should get it.
Results from studies of the Norwegian psychologist suggests that poor feature of cohabitation often develops even before the baby comes. Therefore it would be wise to offer part of the course at an earlier stage than is done now, which is when the baby is between radijator four and nine months, he said. Also read: No risk to be old without children
- I believe that there should be a course element even before the baby comes, because they will act as a preventative measure. After birth, bad patterns in the relationship have already had the chance to, he says.
There is no such systematic and free offers of relationship radijator workshops before birth today. Some municipalities and hospitals keep such courses, radijator however, that at Ullevål University Hospital in Oslo. Where the fee is 650 dollars for a course of three hours.
Evidence indicates that prospective parents can not prepare for how it would be to have a baby in the house. The higher the expectations, the greater the negative impact the small arrival of the relationship, according to the new findings.
How a few quarrels can be crucial to the relationship crumbles or not. (Photo: Colourbox) Mortensen and colleagues found that two-thirds of Norwegian new parents felt the same way, despite the fact that it is far better organized to get children in Norway than in the United States.
However, recent studies suggest that the problem has increased. Mortensen think the shock many couples experience when they have their first child may be because the until birth, which occurs radijator later than it did in the past, has had a large degree of freedom to be effec-just as they want. See also: Money Arguing radijator increases risk of divorce
- Having radijator children requires a huge adjustment and it increases reasons to argue. When we find that couples both in Norway and the United States are experiencing the same problems radijator in married life afterwards, despite the quite different conditions in the two countries, we understand that it is about the internal radijator dynamics between radijator the two.
The third study in the doctoral dissertation of Mortensen shows that the way a couple arguing on can mean as much on their relationship after childbirth, radijator such as how often the fires away at each other.
Couples who do best when they have children remain often away from the negative radijator and destructive arguments, he