Article archive / August 1, 2011
Originally published: . Volume 2, No. 12. Source pages: 18.
UNO Professor Dr. Laura Scaramella was one of a team that researched the impact marital problems have on babies’ sleep. The study’s findings were reviewed in an UNO news release and also on the Huffington Post.
The UNO news release noted, “The conventional wisdom is that infants are hard on a marriage because parents’ sleeping habits are disrupted by babies. But a new study that appears in the journal Child Development finds that marital instability when a child is nine months old can affect child sleep problems at 18 months. ‘This study suggests that regardless of the cause of marital instability, marital instability affects the babies and interferes with babies’ sleep,’ said Laura Scaramella, a University of New Orleans psychology professor and one of the study’s investigators.”
The Huffington Post reviewed the study and wrote, “These new findings suggest babies are able to internalize parental discord before they are able to cognitively understand its implications.”
See http://news.uno.edu/UNOintheNews/articleType/Articl eView/articleId/71/Study-Finds-That-Marital- Problems-Are-Related-To-Infants-Sleep
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