Results indicate that the program strongly
reduced parental rejection of the child and had positive effects on autonomy encouraging parental rearing style, on reducing parental overcontrol, on increasing affection and togetherness in co-parenting and decreasing disagreements in co-parenting, on reducing parental stress, and on increasing marital satisfaction for those who were married.
In addition, as meditation directly affects attention processes such as disengaging from negative stimuli (Ortner et al. 2007),
the reduced parental rejection of the child might be a direct consequence of mindfulness practice.