This just in! 

We have it on highest authority -- researchers from Kent State University in Ohio -- that the greater the agreement among parents in parenting style, the greater mental health ensues for both parents, father and mother. To posit that emotional comfort resulting from prospective and post-birth couples sharing values in how to raise their young contributes to a finer psychic state resulting in good health outcomes is really an astonishing breakthrough.

Who might have imagined this, that symmetrical values on raising children where the expectations of both father and mother match, leading to mutually-approved techniques and methodology would result in a relaxation of possible tensions?  And this, in turn, would lead to a successful team approach, one parent encouraging and supporting the other, and vice-versa. In turn leading to trust, commitment and satisfaction in teamwork? Whose final result is a well-balanced emotional relationship between the parents of the offspring.

This discovery of the ideal relationship relating to the most fundamental of human aspirations and outcomes will herald, surely, a revolution in the world of family generation. Future mothers and fathers will know that it is incumbent upon them to reach an agreement on the need and the practise of supportive child-rearing fundamentals. It cannot be too urgently emphasized, needless to say, how vital this parental contract is to future emotional understanding and health balance for everyone concerned.

In one fell swoop the societal conundrum of emotional and personality-idiosyncrancy balance between parents put to rest, enabling them to raise, confident, emotionally secure and intelligent children. The issue has been placed into the kind of common-sense perspective that produces one of those light-bulb !Aha! moments, ennobling humankind and producing an aspirational drive for the genders in their most intimate procreational ventures.

"Whereas men can compartmentalize, saying 'This is the parenting relationship and our spousal relationship is something separate', for women it seems to be about, 'How are we working together as a couple in all domains of our relationship? I also think it has a lot to do with changing gender attitudes within society, with the egalitarian notion of men and women contributing equally to the relationship being much more important for the mother than the father. The take-home message is communication", advised Kristin Mickelson one of the study's participants, an associate professor of sociology.

Whom Brian Don a doctoral student in social psychology, the lead author on the study published in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, doubtless owes a great debt of gratitude to. It seems that he and co-author Susanne Biehle have succeeded in brilliantly solving an ages-old conundrum whose results will henceforth enable society at its most private level, to finally solve one of humankind's most vexing relationships.