When a baby arrives, everything changes and these changes often have profound effects on new parents, marriages and the newly arrived infant. Recognizing the increased interpersonal, social and economic pressure families experience—especially fragile families with low to poverty-level household incomes—Talaris Research Institute announced that its first sponsored initiative with renowned researcher Dr. John Gottman will focus on learning more about the changes couples experience as they become parents and discovering ways to help parents make the transition with greater ease and success. The research initiative is called “Bringing Baby Home” and is expected to produce an educational program for expectant parents that can be placed in more than 2,500 hospitals across the United States. The study is funded by a four-year, $2.3 million grant by Talaris and a grant by the Kirlin Foundation.
March 26, 2003 |