We talk with Dr. Sarah Schoppe-Sullivan from Ohio State University who has done a TON of research on families and their relationships.  She's done research on co-parenting, gatekeeping, infant development, and more.

Professor Sarah Schoppe-Sullivan received her B.A. in Psychology from Northwestern University, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Schoppe-Sullivan is a nationally and internationally recognized expert on co-parenting, father-child relationships, and the transition to parenthood, and a Fellow of the National Council on Family Relations. Dr. Schoppe-Sullivan is a deputy editor of the Journal of Marriage and Family, as well as a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Family Psychology, Parenting: Science and Practice, and the Journal of Family Theory and Review. 

Dr. Schoppe-Sullivan’s research focuses on the family as the primary context for young children’s social-emotional development, with three central areas of interest. The first is co-parenting relationships – how effectively adults within families coordinate their roles as parents – and the implications of the quality of co-parenting relationships for child and family functioning; The second is the roles of fathers in families, particularly the roles of fathers within co-parenting relationships; and the third is the effects of children’s characteristics and behavior on family relationships.

FMI:

https://psychology.osu.edu/people/schoppe-sullivan.1

Watch the video of this interview:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCXrGDEXLVc

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