Furstenberg (1976), found that parents who had unrealistically high expectations of how easy it was going to be to care for a child, and who anticipated that developmental gains such as smiling, walking, speaking and being toilet- trained would be made by their baby at far earlier ages than actually happens, adjusted relatively more poorly to parenthood.

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Furstenberg (1976) did indeed find that parents who had unrealistic expectations adjusted relatively more poorly to parenthood.

Furstenberg (1976), Found That Parents Who Had Unrealistically High Expectations