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Carolyn Cowan

Professor Emerita, University of California, Berkeley

Topics of expertise
  • Division of Labor in Families
  • Divorce, Couples Conflict, & Separation
  • Family Counseling, Therapy & Parenting Intervention
  • Marriage & Divorce
  • Marriage, Cohabitation, & Committed Relationships
  • Parenthood: Motherhood/Fatherhood
  • Transition – Couples to Parenting

Email: ccowan@berkeley.edu

I have served as Co-director of a number of longitudinal intervention studies that focus on strengthening the relationship between parents and their parenting strategies for the sake of their own and their children’s development well-being. Studies currently being conducted in several California sites in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K.

Last Updated: 12/15/25