The Role of Marriage Parenting Indicators on Marital Satisfaction of Children: Qualitative Research

Parents have the primary responsibility for the moral, social, emotional, and cultural upbringing of their children, and they must consider that one day their children will have an independent life. The present study was conducted to investigate the role of marital parenting indices on children''s marital satisfaction.

This qualitative research has been done by combined method and using documentary studies and field studies (interviews) in which 16 semi-structured interviews were selected by judgmental and voluntary sampling. The Strauss and Corbin methods were used to examine the content of the interviews, conceptualize and extract the categories. 90 codes in couples with marital satisfaction and 83 codes in couples with dissatisfaction, 14 sub-categories and 5 main categories (educational, psychological, social, moral, cultural) were identified.

Data analysis showed that parents should pay attention to the fourteen identified categories in order to create marital satisfaction in their children''s future lives. Marital Parenting Criteria Can help parents, couples, and therapists become more aware of what constitutes effective and appropriate parenting behaviors, and thus use these criteria for a more successful marriage and marital satisfaction.