Results indicated that for mothers this baseline model did not adequately fit the data (χ2 (9)=31.10, p=.00, RMSEA=.11, CFI=.95, TLI=.79, SRMR=.05). Although we hypothesized that marital satisfaction would mediate the association between paternal alcoholism and warm/sensitive parenting, it was possible that paternal alcoholism would still have a direct effect on maternal parenting behavior, which is consistent with theoretical formulations of the etiology of alcoholism and prior research. Thus, a direct path was added from alcohol group status at 12 months to warmth/sensitivity at 36 months to see if this would improve the fit of the model. Results indicated that this modification did not result in an improved fit: χ2difference (1)=.52, p>.05. As such, this path was dropped from the model. Modification indices suggested the addition of a direct path from warm/sensitive parenting at 12 months to warm/sensitive parenting at 36 months would improve model fit. We then ran a third model which included this path and dropped the non-significant paths from marital satisfaction at 12 months to warm/sensitive parenting at 24 months and from depression at 12 months to marital
