Mygind and colleagues found that neighborhood form and some parenting practices are related. They state that “There were no observable associations between residential greenness [i.e., Normalized Difference in Vegetation Index] within a 1,600 m network radius and parenting practices, mother-infant bonding, or infant socioemotional function. The findings were largely corroborated by sensitivity analyses (i.e., NDVI within 100, 250, 500, and 1,000 m and distance to park). Shorter distances to a park were associated with less hostile parenting. More residential greenness (1,000 and 1,600 m) was associated with stronger father-infant bonding and more hostile parenting amongst the most stressed parents in exploratory analyses. Residential greenness might be a socioecological precursor for father-infant bonding.”
Laerke Mygind, Christopher Greenwood, Primrose Letcher, Suzanne Mavoa, Kate Lycett, and Peter Enticott. 2023. “Is Neighborhood Nature and Ecological Precursor of Parenting Practices, Infant-Parent Bonding, and Infant Socioemotional Function? Environment and Behavior, vol. 55, no. 4, pp. 278-306, https://doi.org/10.1177/00139165231182686