Abstract
This study examined the extent to which parental perceptions of children's well-being were related to family structure, parental depression, and marital satisfaction. Data were taken from the National Survey of Families and Households. Subjects were both spouses in 1,446; 336; 57; and 32 first-marriage, stepfather, stepmother, and complex stepparent families, respectively. For both husbands and wives, parents in first-marriage families reported more positive parent-child relationships than did stepparents. In addition, parental depression and marital satisfaction were positively associated with perceptions of child well-being, although these relations were independent of those between family structure and child well-being. The unique and combined contributions of family structure, parental depression, and marital satisfaction to child well-being were small.
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