Based on 26 years of experience with parents of preschoolers and the results of 1,000 questionnaires sent to new moms and dads, this book identifies six areas of need: balance, commitment, interdependence, intimacy, mission, and hope. Elisa Morgan and Carol Kuykendall of MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) International touch on the issues that most concern husbands and wives moving as they make the important transitions of parenthood.

How do we find time and energy to regain that romantic spark?

How can we function as a team? How do we share responsibilities?

How should raise our children? The answers are here, together with many others, spiced with vignettes that new parents everywhere can identify with. The third in a series of foundational books for young parents (including What Every Mom Needs and What Every Child Needs), this book offers clarity and hope, showing how marriage embodies a relationship that can grow stronger through a lifetime of transitions.