Psychology, USF St. Petersburg, Saint Petersburg, FL 33701, USA.
Fam Process. 2012 Sep;51(3):284-306. doi: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2012.01402.x.
With a large and growing share of American families now forming outside of marriage, triangular infant-mother-father relationship systems in "fragile families" have begun to attract the interest of family scholars and clinicians. A relatively novel conceptualization has concerned the feasibility of intervening to support the development of a sustained and positive coparenting alliance between mothers and fathers who have not made an enduring relationship commitment to one another. At this point in time, there are very few published outcome studies of programs explicitly conceived to help build coparenting alliances in such families. This article reviews what we currently know from this evolving field of study, and from those related responsible fatherhood and marriage and relationship enhancement (MRE) initiatives that included any explicit targeting, strengthening, and assessment of fragile family coparenting in their designs. We summarize lessons learned thus far from Access and Visitation (AV) programs for non-residential fathers, from MRE programs for low-income, unmarried couples, and from newer programs for fragile families directly designed to target and support coparenting per se. We close with recommendations for charting this important new family process terrain.
随着越来越多的美国家庭选择在婚姻之外组建家庭，“脆弱家庭”中的三角式母婴父关系系统开始引起家庭学者和临床医生的关注。一个相对新颖的概念涉及到干预的可行性，以支持那些彼此之间没有持久关系承诺的父母之间发展持续和积极的共同养育联盟。在这个时候，很少有专门设计来帮助建立这种家庭共同养育联盟的项目的出版结果研究。本文综述了我们从这个不断发展的研究领域以及那些相关的负责任的父亲身份和婚姻及关系增强（MRE）倡议中了解到的情况，这些倡议在其设计中明确针对、加强和评估脆弱家庭的共同养育。我们总结了迄今为止从非居住父亲的访问和探视（AV）计划、针对低收入未婚夫妇的 MRE 计划以及为直接针对和支持共同养育本身而设计的脆弱家庭的新计划中获得的经验教训。最后，我们提出了为这一重要的新家庭过程领域制定路线图的建议。
