The study attempts to determine whether marital aggression has direct effects on child outcome, marital aggression has effects that are mediated through the parent-child relationship, and the combination of direct and mediated effects accounts for more variance in children's adjustment than do the separate effect models. The study examines five constructs: marital aggression, positive parenting, power assertive parenting, children's hostility, and children's depression and anxiety. Three main findings emerge: (1) Marital aggression directly influences parenting, with notable effects between marital aggression and parenting power assertion for boys and between marital aggression and positive parenting for girls; (2) Marital aggression has some direct effects on children's adjustment, but to a large extent, those effects are mediated through parenting; and (3) Overall, the marital aggression and parenting constructs examined explain considerably more variance in boys' than girls' self-reported adjustment. Figures, tables, notes, references