We first examined the associations between marital satisfaction and warm/sensitive parenting and the following demographic variables at 12 months of age: parental education, ethnicity, age, and income. Paternal education was consistently associated with paternal parenting across time, with correlations ranging from r=.16 to r=.21. Paternal education was also associated with maternal parenting at 36 months (r=.23, p<.05). Maternal age was associated with paternal warmth at 36 months (r=.17, p<.05) and maternal warmth at 12 (r=.20, p<.05) and 36 months (r=.20, p<.05). Paternal age was associated with maternal marital adjustment at 36 months (r=−.18, p<.05). Income was associated with paternal warmth at 24 (r=.15, p<.05) and 36 (r=.18, p<.05) months. A series of analyses were then conducted to determine whether there were any significant differences between the father-alcoholic and the non-alcoholic groups on education, ethnicity, age, and income. There were no significant differences between the two groups on any of these demographic variables. As such, we did not include any of the demographic variables as covariates in our analyses.
