on more complex family processes than previous research studies. However, the parenting measures were aggregated across mothers and fathers. Thus, the individual effects of paternal alcoholism on parenting could not be determined for each parent separately. Doing so would be important given that paternal alcoholism may affect mothers' and fathers' parenting behaviors in different ways. Moreover, some evidence suggests that the association between marital satisfaction and parenting may be stronger for fathers than for mothers (Belsky, Gilstrap, & Rovine, 1984; Belsky & Volling, 1987). Another limitation of the Keller et al. (2008) study is that it did not control for parents' co-occurring psychopathology, in particular depressive symptomatology, which is known to be positively associated with parental alcoholism (e.g., Eiden & Leonard, 2000; Homish, Leonard, & Kearns-Bodkin, 2006; Roberts & Leonard, 1998) and negatively associated with marital satisfaction (see Beach, Sandeen, & O'Leary, 1990) and positive parenting behaviors (e.g., Jameson, Gelfand, Kulcsar, & Teti,1997; Lyons-Ruth, Wolfe, Lyubchik, & Steingard, 2002; Rosenblum, Mazet, & Benony, 1997).
