Fourteen first-time parent couples

Fourteen first-time parent couples participated in this study (N = 28; 14 mothers and 14 fathers). Individuals ranged in age from twenty-one years old to thirty-eight years old. All of the couples were living together, and twelve of the fourteen couples were married. Nine mothers and ten fathers described themselves as non-Hispanic white (n = 19), four mothers and two fathers described themselves as Hispanic or Latino (n = 6), one mother and one father described themselves as black or African American (n = 2), and one father described himself as American Indian or Alaskan Native and Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander (n =1).