The Co-parenting refers to the degree of coordination between parents in the process of raising children, which has an important impact on the development of children in different periods. Many researchers have shown that co-parenting is not only directly related to children's behavioral problems, emotional and social development, but also affect the mental health of parents and parenting. However, the existing studies mainly only focused on the direct impact on children, lacking the comprehensive investigation for the specific mechanism. Childhood is an important developing time of behaviors and psychology. Therefore, it is significant to deeply explore the influencing mechanism of co-parenting impacting on children's development.Total of 571 children aged 0-12 years and their parents participated in this study, and 552 questionnaires were valid. The t-test and one-way Anova analysis were used to compare the differences between positive and negative co-parenting of fathers in different characteristic groups. And then the structural equation model is used in this study to systematically explore the potential mechanism of positive father co-parenting and negative father co-parenting on children's behavioral problems, and to test the possible mediating role of maternal anxiety and psychological control.The results showed that ①the father whose wife with heavy workload (F=4.00，p<0.05), has older child(F=6.48，p<0.01)，with lower family income(F=4.34, p<0.05), poor subjective family economic conditions (F=6.64，p<0.01) or has poor health child (t=2.22，p<0.05), or whose parents/parents in law were reluctant to involve in raising children (t=5.17，p<0.001) significantly had lower positive co-parenting level; ②the father with old age(t=-2.74，p<0.01) or has lower education level(F=3.22，p<0.05) , or whose wife with heavy workload (F=4.68，p<0.05), with poor subjective family economic conditions (F=8.11，p<0.001), has older child(F=4.96，p<0.01) or poor health child (t=-2.62，p<0.01), or whose parents/parents in law were reluctant to involve in raising children (t=-4.80，p<0.001) significantly had higher negative co-parenting level; ③the father positive co-parenting was significantly negatively correlated with children's behavioral problems (β=-0.24，p<0.001) and maternal anxiety (β=-0.43，p<0.001) and maternal psychological control (β=-0.18，p<0.01), maternal anxiety significantly positively related to maternal psychological control (β=0.29，p<0.001) and the maternal psychological control could significantly positively predict children's behavioral problems (β=0.74, p<0.001), the direct effect of maternal anxiety on children's behavioral problems was not significant (β=0.02, p=ns); the father negative co-parenting was significantly positively correlated with both maternal anxiety (β=0.49，p<0.001) and maternal psychological control (β=0.35，p<0.001), maternal anxiety significantly positively related to maternal psychological control (β=0.19，p<0.01) and the maternal psychological control could significantly positively predict children's behavioral problems (β=0.75，p<0.001), the direct effect between father’s poor performance in co-parenting and children's behavioral problems was not significant (β=0.11，p=ns), the direct effect of maternal anxiety on children's behavioral problems was not significant (β=0.04，p=ns).Conclusion: In the relation between father’s performance in co-parenting and the children's behavioral problems, maternal anxiety and maternal psychological control exert multiple mediating effects.
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