Problem: How can I make notes with bullet points in this paragraph? Several different theoretical explanations have been offered to account for the effects of parental conflict on children's social development. Each has received empirical support. Social learning theory suggests that children learn how to interact with people and resolve conflicts by watching their parents; if parents fight, children learn aggressive interaction strategies (Crockenberg & Langrock, 2001). A second explanation, based on attachment theory, suggests that as a result of exposure to conflict between their parents, children experience emotional arousal and distress and develop a sense of emotional insecurity, which leads to later problems in social interactions (Cummings & Davies, 2010). In support of this viewpoint, researchers have found that children's insecure representations of their parents' relationship were a significant intervening mechanism in the association between parents' destructive conflict and children's emotional difficulties in early elementary school (Sturge-Apple et al., 2008). Need Assignment Help?