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After the baby: Keeping the couple relationship alive

Philip A. Cowan and Carolyn Pape Cowan, University of California, Berkeley

The eminent scholars, Philip and Carolyn Cowan, authors of "When Partners become Parents," observe that the most important fact arising from research is that while there is an average decline in relationship satisfaction after baby, those doing best after making the transition tend to be those doing best before.

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