Journal of Marriage and Family

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Marriage and Family is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
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The Compensatory Model of Resilience Process of Indonesian Married Individuals52
Paternity leave‐taking and early childhood development: A longitudinal analysis in Singapore40
Support matters: How formal and informal institutions shape young Indians' work‐family preferences39
Early‐life disadvantage and parent‐to‐child financial transfers36
Unplanned costs and benefits: Gender and spousal spillover effects of retirement on health35
The asymmetric effects of improving and declining marital satisfaction on cognitive function31
Between‐firm sorting and parenthood wage gaps in the US service sector25
Resettlement and Relational Adjustment: Gender and Liberian Couple Relationships After Forced Migration24
Work as overload or enhancement for family caregivers of older adults: Assessment of experienced well‐being over the day23
Converging mothers' employment trajectories between East and West Germany? A focus on the 2008‐childcare‐reform22
Tracking types of non‐parents in the United States20
How Do Employers View Applicants With and Without Children?20
Parents' childbearing motivations, parenting, and child adjustment: From pregnancy to20‐monthspostpartum19
Attitudes toward same‐sex couple parents: A decade of change17
What is your type? Latent classes of newly married couples' gender ideologies17
Reproductive Curation: Assisted Reproductive Technologies ( ARTs ) and Lesbian Motherhood‐Making16
Privileged dependence, precarious autonomy: Parent/young adult relationships through the lens of COVID‐1916
How Does Taking Parental Leave Affect the Wages of Highly Educated Parents?16
The Socioeconomic Gradient in Joint Physical Custody: A Comparison of 32 Countries16
Differences by sexual orientation in romantic relationship attitudes and skills among adolescents16
Family and religion in flux: Relationship complexity, type of religiosity, and race/ethnicity15
Parenthood and Subjective Financial Well‐Being: Reconsidering the Economic Consequences of Parenthood15
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Introduction to mid‐decade Special Issue on Theory and Methods15
Trans family systems framework: Theorizing families' gender investments and divestments in cisnormativity14
Unexpected Changes in Rural Families: Fewer Married Parents, Lower Child Poverty14
Maternal differential treatment and adult children's well‐being when mothers have cognitive impairment14
“You're biracial but…”: Multiracial socialization discourse among mommy bloggers with Black and non‐Black multiracial children14
Intergenerational associations of maternal depression with daughters' family formation14
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Adult children's responsiveness to parental needs during the pandemic13
Parenting stress and attachment insecurity in young adulthood: A social relations model13
A Typology of Younger Adults' Nuclear and Extended Family Relations in the United States13
How gender shapes sibling tension in adulthood following parental death13
Occupational autonomy, paid maternity leave, and mothers' return to work after childbirth13
What Happened to the Marriage Alternatives? Same‐Sex Couples in the United States and the Distinctiveness of Marriage13
Gone too long or back too soon? Perceptions of paid parental leave‐taking and variations by gender and family structure13
Couple Mobility and Employment Patterns. A Gender Perspective in Six European Countries13
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Gender differences in the economic consequences of life‐long singlehood among older white U.S. adults12
A longitudinal dyadic analysis of gender ideology during the transition into parenthood12
Parent–Child Conflict and Prosocial Behavior in Preschoolers: Social Information Processing Perspective12
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Attractiveness for Status? The Link Between Physical Attractiveness and Male Refugees' Romantic Relationships in Germany12
Sexual passion in couple relationships: Emerging patterns from dyadic response surface analysis11
Life Course Changes in the Geographical Distance Between Adult Children of Immigrants and Their Parents: The Role of Partnership Formation and Dissolution11
Lingering shadows of childhood corporal punishment: Family trajectories across decades11
Intergenerational and digital solidarity: Associations with depressive symptoms during the COVID‐19 pandemic10
Differently Educated US Couples and Their Work‐Family Arrangements, 1968–202310
Latent change modeling of Latino parent–child conflict and pathways to mental health10
Associations between parental precarious work schedules and child behavior problems among low‐income families10
Parental Time Use and the Gendered Socialization of Adolescents' Housework in China: A Cumulative Perspective10
Theorizing White heteropatriarchal supremacy, marriage fundamentalism, and the mechanisms that maintain family inequality10
Effects of welfare reform on maternal engagement and involvement with young adolescents10
Grandparents' and domestic helpers' childcare support: Implications for well‐being in Asian families10
Keeping us young? Grandchild caregiving and older adults' cognitive functioning10
I am home. The circle is complete: The reunification of fostered/adopted relatives10
“If I got it, she got it”: Black mothers' food provision and symbiotic mothering10
Intimate Partner Violence: A Dyadic Examination of Self‐Differentiation and Responsive Caregiving10
Does perceived gender conflict shape young Koreans' attitudes toward marriage and childbearing?10
Emerging digital inequality in early life: Parenting and differential usage of digital devices among urban preschoolers in China10
Educational experiences and American young adults' childbearing goals: A research note9
Adultification in the context of childhood exposure to domestic violence9
Race and ethnic differences in step‐ versus biological parent support to adult children9
The Job Task Penalty for Motherhood9
Interparental conflict and mindful parenting practices: Transactional effects between mothers and fathers9
Negotiating good motherhood: Foodwork, emotion work, and downscaling9
Mealtime emotion work: Gendered politics of care and power at the table9
The emotional management of motherhood: Foodwork, maternal guilt, and emotion work9
Stepfamily formation and the educational outcomes of children in Sweden8
Other adults in the United States: Improving survey measures of youths' non‐parental adult relationships8
Converging trends in developmental child care time by fathers' education? Comment on Cha and Park (2021)8
Young‐age exposure to armed conflict and women's experiences of intimate partner violence8
Early Labor Market Outcomes of Young Adults From Same‐Sex Families: Evidence From Population Data8
Early Maternal Parenting Profiles and Subsequent Child Well‐Being in an Asian Cohort8
Sibling Dynamics in Adult Children's Support Across Parental Widowhood Phases in Korea8
Division of Labor, Multiplication of Gratitude? Gratitude and Resentment Within Households8
“I don't try to seek him out”: Views of child support over time8
Burdens of the what‐if: Vicarious anti‐Black racism and stress for Black mothers8
Redoing Family After Estrangement8
Does income moderate basic relationship processes?8
Impact of Sibling Death in Midlife on Tension Among Surviving Siblings8
“Normal” childhood in the lives of financially struggling white daughters and mothers8
The longitudinal associations between personality traits and psychological intimate partner violence7
Assessing the deinstitutionalization of marriage thesis: Changes in the meaning of cohabitation over the relationship life course7
Parent–teen dyadic experiences of racism: Implications for Black familial racial socialization7
Stability and relevance of marriage desires: Importance of age norms and partnering opportunities7
Mate preferences and marriage‐related behaviors: The case of Japan7
Parental Gender and Adult Attachment Style in the Transition to Parenthood: Implications for Parent–Infant Interaction, Parenting Stress, and Parental Leave Practices7
Two sides of a coin: The relationship between work autonomy and childbearing7
Why Parenthood Strains Relationships: Investigating the Mechanisms Behind Declining Relationship Satisfaction7
Forgotten Family Relationships: How Incarcerated Brothers Experience Sibling Support7
Qualitative family research: Innovative, flexible, theoretical, reflexive7
Gender inequality in intergenerational contact after parental separation in the digital era7
A Brief Report Comparing Younger and Older Cohabitors7
Correction to “Parent–child contact, closeness, and conflict across the transition to adulthood”7
Temporary Aid for Needy Families as family policy for first time mothers7
Stigma arising from youth police contact: The protective role ofmother–youthcloseness7
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The Changing Links Between Socioeconomic Status and Single Women's Entry Into Parenthood6
The payroll tax contribution limit and women's labor market outcomes6
Cultural repertoires and status safeguarding among rural middle‐class parents6
The rising midlife first marriage rate in the U.S.6
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Marginalized identities, healthcare discrimination, and parental stress about COVID‐196
Indian Wives of Incarcerated Men Tell Their Own Stories: An Intersectional Narrative Analysis of Disenfranchisement and Resilience6
Cash‐for‐Care and the Cost of Parenthood: Evidence From Same‐Sex and Adoptive Parents6
An increasing disinterest in fatherhood among childless men in the United States: A brief report6
Childlessness and sibling positioning in upward intergenerational support: Insights from Singapore6
From the Editor6
Racial/ethnic differences in living arrangements, distant relations, and later‐life mental health6
How gendered lived experiences shape sex preference attitudes in contemporary urban China5
The ties that bind: Questions for studying families in neighborhood contexts5
Conjugal testamentary practices in Canada: The gendered effect of children from other unions5
Using experiments to study families and intimate relationships5
Sex of Child, the Fatherhood Bonus, and Fathers' Work Hours5
Maternal education, early language skills, and mother–child interactions across three welfare states5
Preschools, family social capital, and child development in Cambodia5
Climate change worries and fertility intentions: Insights from three EU countries5
One parent, two parents, one sex, two sexes: Public attitudes toward single and same‐sex parents5
Exploring African American marital strengths during COVID‐195
How couples meet and assortative mating in Canada5
Depressive Symptoms Mediate the Associations of Family Economic Pressure With Social Functioning: A Three‐Wave Longitudinal Study of Chinese Families5
“I have a certain standard:” HBCU women's heterosexual aspirations and identity negotiation5
Administrative burdens as a family affair: Navigating racialized safety‐net systems post‐welfare reform5
Paternal involvement and children's internalization of gender roles in early childhood5
Slow to launch: Young men's parental coresidence and employment outcomes5
Partner violence surrounding divorce: A record‐linkage study of wives and their husbands5
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Classifying and mapping gender ideologies globally: Gender attitudes in 47 countries at the turn of the 21st century5
Defining and measuring family: Lessons learned from LGBTQ+ people and families5
The fall and rise of parental financial investments during the COVID‐19 pandemic5
Male Spousal Caregivers Are Increasing, but Only in Less Demanding Care Roles4
“The children don't do enough”: Including children in fairness perceptions of housework4
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Societal transitions, ethnolinguistic identities, and marital conservatism in Central Asia4
COVID‐19 and the role of gender, earnings, and telecommuting in parents' employment4
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Marital Satisfaction and Parental Burnout: Longitudinal Indirect Effects of Family Emotional Expressiveness4
Who can work when, and why do we have to care? Education, care demands, and the gendered division of work schedules in France and Germany4
The gendered economic consequences of forming a single‐parent household after separation4
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Formal and Informal Shared Parenting Among Divorced and Never‐Married Parents4
A typology of US parents' mental loads: Core and episodic cognitive labor4
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Estimating the percentage of men who are childfree using the National Survey of Family Growth: A comment on Bozick (2023)4
Coparenting profiles and children's socioemotional outcomes in unmarried parents with low‐income4
What Lies Between Them? Exploring Relational Dynamics Among Hetero‐Gay Co‐Parents4
For better or worse: Economic strain, furlough, and relationship quality during the Covid‐19 lockdown4
Minority stress and structural stigma predict well‐being in European LGBTQ+ parents3
Exhausted Minds: Maternal Reflective Functioning and Parental Burnout in Mothers of Young Children in A One‐Year Longitudinal Study3
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Who Remains Single? Educational Gradients in Long‐Term Singlehood Across Ethnic Groups3
Involuntary childlessness in the U.S. and Israel: Pronatalism, gender, and sexual identity3
Gender Norms in Transition? Parents' Housework and Childcare Time in the COVID ‐19 Era3
Child Care Labor Division: Expectations, Experiences, and Relationship With Life Goal Satisfaction3
Surveilling system exposure and parental institutional disengagement3
“Mom, I'm Polyamorous”: Parental Reactions to Polyamory Identity Disclosures3
The long‐term effects of formal child support3
Stepfamily variation in parent–child relationship quality in later life3
Latinx LGBTQ+ youth and grandparents: Intergenerational solidarity, precarious familismo, and cisnormativity3
Care Arrangements for Children Exposed to Maternal Incarceration: Evidence From Wisconsin3
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Relational Turbulence Among Retired Couples in Arab Society: An APIM Analysis3
Multidimensional Racism‐Related Stress and the Undermining of Black Romantic Relationships3
Innovative strategies for increasing sample size and diversity in family science research3
Between‐sibling inequality in inheritances: Intergenerational support and patrilineality in South Korea3
Premarital Cohabitation and Intimate Partner Violence in Urban China: Evidence From Beijing3
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Adult sibling relationships: The impact of cohabitation, marriage, separation, and childbearing3
Division of Housework, Sexual Intimacy, and Relationship Quality in Different‐Sex and Same‐Sex Couples3
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Beyond motherhood: Childless Black women and compulsory mothering3
Childhood Sexual Abuse and Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Responses to Partner Touch3
Parental Sexual Orientation Socialization for Sexual Minority Youth: An Empirically‐Derived Conceptual Model2
Calling on kin: Poverty, the family safety net, and child welfare policy2
State‐level safety net spending and educational gaps in maternal time with children2
Parent–adult child estrangement in the United States by gender, race/ethnicity, and sexuality2
Earnings Trajectories Around Parenthood: Male Same‐Sex Couples in Denmark, the Netherlands and Sweden2
A brief report on the COVID‐19 pandemic and ideal family size in the United States2
Geographic relocation in response to parents' health shocks: Who moves and how close?2
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“Why wait?”: Early marriage among Southern college students2
Cognitive housework and Parents' relationship satisfaction2
Independent or Joint? How Relative Income and Wealth Relate to Couples' Money Management in Eastern and Western Germany2
Working from home and bi‐directional work–family conflict: Longitudinal evidence from Australian parents2
“We'll make it work”: Navigating surveilled living arrangements after romantic partner incarceration2
Making it work: Fathers' nonstandard work schedules and parenting activities2
Why mothers double up: The role of demographic, economic, and family characteristics2
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Child executive function linking marital adjustment to peer nominations of prosocial behavior2
Trends in child support receipt and regularity in the United States, 1996–20182
Relationships among adult full, half, and stepsiblings: Does coresidence explain the stepgap?2
Families with more than one trans person: Investments and divestments in cisnormativity2
Intermarriage and housing upon separation. A matter of resources and bargaining power?2
The consequences of sibling criminal legal system contact for family life2
Parental separation and children's genetic influences on education2
Mapping modern kinship networks: First results from the KINMATRIX survey2
Timing and Trajectories: Shifts in Migration and Family Formation Trajectories in Nepal2
Gender‐Role Attitudes and Marriage Desires Among Never‐Married Adults in South Korea2
Caring for Parents/In‐Laws and Cognitive Functioning of Adult Children in China2
Pandemic precarity: COVID‐19's impact on Mexican and Central American immigrant families2
The digitalization of family life: A multilevel conceptual framework2
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