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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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The Compensatory Model of Resilience Process of Indonesian Married Individuals53
Paternity leave‐taking and early childhood development: A longitudinal analysis in Singapore44
Support matters: How formal and informal institutions shape young Indians' work‐family preferences43
Early‐life disadvantage and parent‐to‐child financial transfers39
Unplanned costs and benefits: Gender and spousal spillover effects of retirement on health33
Between‐firm sorting and parenthood wage gaps in the US service sector31
Resettlement and Relational Adjustment: Gender and Liberian Couple Relationships After Forced Migration30
The asymmetric effects of improving and declining marital satisfaction on cognitive function24
Work as overload or enhancement for family caregivers of older adults: Assessment of experienced well‐being over the day24
Converging mothers' employment trajectories between East and West Germany? A focus on the 2008‐childcare‐reform22
What is your type? Latent classes of newly married couples' gender ideologies22
Attitudes toward same‐sex couple parents: A decade of change22
How Does Taking Parental Leave Affect the Wages of Highly Educated Parents?21
Privileged dependence, precarious autonomy: Parent/young adult relationships through the lens of COVID‐1920
Reproductive Curation: Assisted Reproductive Technologies ( ARTs ) and Lesbian Motherhood‐Making19
Differences by sexual orientation in romantic relationship attitudes and skills among adolescents19
Parenthood and Subjective Financial Well‐Being: Reconsidering the Economic Consequences of Parenthood19
Parents' childbearing motivations, parenting, and child adjustment: From pregnancy to20‐monthspostpartum18
Tracking types of non‐parents in the United States18
Introduction to mid‐decade Special Issue on Theory and Methods17
How Do Employers View Applicants With and Without Children?17
Trans family systems framework: Theorizing families' gender investments and divestments in cisnormativity17
The Socioeconomic Gradient in Joint Physical Custody: A Comparison of 32 Countries17
Maternal differential treatment and adult children's well‐being when mothers have cognitive impairment16
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Family and religion in flux: Relationship complexity, type of religiosity, and race/ethnicity16
Unexpected Changes in Rural Families: Fewer Married Parents, Lower Child Poverty16
Adult children's responsiveness to parental needs during the pandemic15
Gone too long or back too soon? Perceptions of paid parental leave‐taking and variations by gender and family structure15
How gender shapes sibling tension in adulthood following parental death15
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A Typology of Younger Adults' Nuclear and Extended Family Relations in the United States14
Attractiveness for Status? The Link Between Physical Attractiveness and Male Refugees' Romantic Relationships in Germany14
Intergenerational associations of maternal depression with daughters' family formation14
Occupational autonomy, paid maternity leave, and mothers' return to work after childbirth14
Parenting stress and attachment insecurity in young adulthood: A social relations model14
A longitudinal dyadic analysis of gender ideology during the transition into parenthood13
Gender differences in the economic consequences of life‐long singlehood among older white U.S. adults13
Intimate Partner Violence, Ambiguous and Non‐Consensual Non‐Monogamy, and Breaking Up During Young Adulthood13
What Happened to the Marriage Alternatives? Same‐Sex Couples in the United States and the Distinctiveness of Marriage13
Couple Mobility and Employment Patterns. A Gender Perspective in Six European Countries13
Parent–Child Conflict and Prosocial Behavior in Preschoolers: Social Information Processing Perspective12
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Intergenerational and digital solidarity: Associations with depressive symptoms during the COVID‐19 pandemic11
I am home. The circle is complete: The reunification of fostered/adopted relatives11
Grandparents' and domestic helpers' childcare support: Implications for well‐being in Asian families11
Emerging digital inequality in early life: Parenting and differential usage of digital devices among urban preschoolers in China11
Sexual passion in couple relationships: Emerging patterns from dyadic response surface analysis11
Associations between parental precarious work schedules and child behavior problems among low‐income families11
Parental Time Use and the Gendered Socialization of Adolescents' Housework in China: A Cumulative Perspective11
Life Course Changes in the Geographical Distance Between Adult Children of Immigrants and Their Parents: The Role of Partnership Formation and Dissolution11
Theorizing White heteropatriarchal supremacy, marriage fundamentalism, and the mechanisms that maintain family inequality11
Keeping us young? Grandchild caregiving and older adults' cognitive functioning11
Educational experiences and American young adults' childbearing goals: A research note10
Latent change modeling of Latino parent–child conflict and pathways to mental health10
“If I got it, she got it”: Black mothers' food provision and symbiotic mothering10
Early Labor Market Outcomes of Young Adults From Same‐Sex Families: Evidence From Population Data10
Differently Educated US Couples and Their Work‐Family Arrangements, 1968–202310
Lingering shadows of childhood corporal punishment: Family trajectories across decades10
Mealtime emotion work: Gendered politics of care and power at the table10
Effects of welfare reform on maternal engagement and involvement with young adolescents10
Adultification in the context of childhood exposure to domestic violence10
Race and ethnic differences in step‐ versus biological parent support to adult children10
Does perceived gender conflict shape young Koreans' attitudes toward marriage and childbearing?10
Intimate Partner Violence: A Dyadic Examination of Self‐Differentiation and Responsive Caregiving10
The Job Task Penalty for Motherhood10
The emotional management of motherhood: Foodwork, maternal guilt, and emotion work9
Negotiating good motherhood: Foodwork, emotion work, and downscaling9
Does income moderate basic relationship processes?9
Early Maternal Parenting Profiles and Subsequent Child Well‐Being in an Asian Cohort9
Converging trends in developmental child care time by fathers' education? Comment on Cha and Park (2021)9
Burdens of the what‐if: Vicarious anti‐Black racism and stress for Black mothers9
Other adults in the United States: Improving survey measures of youths' non‐parental adult relationships9
Impact of Sibling Death in Midlife on Tension Among Surviving Siblings9
Sibling Dynamics in Adult Children's Support Across Parental Widowhood Phases in Korea8
Stepfamily formation and the educational outcomes of children in Sweden8
National Estimates of Multisystem Exposure Among Urban Families8
Division of Labor, Multiplication of Gratitude? Gratitude and Resentment Within Households8
Young‐age exposure to armed conflict and women's experiences of intimate partner violence8
Parental Gender and Adult Attachment Style in the Transition to Parenthood: Implications for Parent–Infant Interaction, Parenting Stress, and Parental Leave Practices8
Redoing Family After Estrangement8
Stability and relevance of marriage desires: Importance of age norms and partnering opportunities8
Mate preferences and marriage‐related behaviors: The case of Japan7
Parent–teen dyadic experiences of racism: Implications for Black familial racial socialization7
Stigma arising from youth police contact: The protective role ofmother–youthcloseness7
Sibling Complexity Across Childhood: A 16‐Year Follow‐up of the 1988 and 2000 Birth Cohorts in Finland7
“I don't try to seek him out”: Views of child support over time7
The Changing Links Between Socioeconomic Status and Single Women's Entry Into Parenthood7
A Brief Report Comparing Younger and Older Cohabitors7
Two sides of a coin: The relationship between work autonomy and childbearing7
Assessing the deinstitutionalization of marriage thesis: Changes in the meaning of cohabitation over the relationship life course7
Qualitative family research: Innovative, flexible, theoretical, reflexive7
Forgotten Family Relationships: How Incarcerated Brothers Experience Sibling Support7
Gender inequality in intergenerational contact after parental separation in the digital era7
From the Editor6
Maternal education, early language skills, and mother–child interactions across three welfare states6
Correction to “Parent–child contact, closeness, and conflict across the transition to adulthood”6
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How couples meet and assortative mating in Canada6
Depressive Symptoms Mediate the Associations of Family Economic Pressure With Social Functioning: A Three‐Wave Longitudinal Study of Chinese Families6
Indian Wives of Incarcerated Men Tell Their Own Stories: An Intersectional Narrative Analysis of Disenfranchisement and Resilience6
Why Parenthood Strains Relationships: Investigating the Mechanisms Behind Declining Relationship Satisfaction6
Marginalized identities, healthcare discrimination, and parental stress about COVID‐196
Sex of Child, the Fatherhood Bonus, and Fathers' Work Hours6
The payroll tax contribution limit and women's labor market outcomes6
Cash‐for‐Care and the Cost of Parenthood: Evidence From Same‐Sex and Adoptive Parents6
Temporary Aid for Needy Families as family policy for first time mothers6
Defining and measuring family: Lessons learned from LGBTQ+ people and families5
Racial/ethnic differences in living arrangements, distant relations, and later‐life mental health5
The fall and rise of parental financial investments during the COVID‐19 pandemic5
Using experiments to study families and intimate relationships5
The ties that bind: Questions for studying families in neighborhood contexts5
Predictably Unstable?: Precarious Work and Precarious Relationships in the U.S.5
Childlessness and sibling positioning in upward intergenerational support: Insights from Singapore5
Cultural repertoires and status safeguarding among rural middle‐class parents5
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Slow to launch: Young men's parental coresidence and employment outcomes5
Paternal involvement and children's internalization of gender roles in early childhood5
Preschools, family social capital, and child development in Cambodia5
Classifying and mapping gender ideologies globally: Gender attitudes in 47 countries at the turn of the 21st century5
“A Fairly Egalitarian Relationship”: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of Fathers' Perceptions of Fathering in a Global Pandemic5
Exploring African American marital strengths during COVID‐195
How gendered lived experiences shape sex preference attitudes in contemporary urban China5
Climate change worries and fertility intentions: Insights from three EU countries5
Administrative burdens as a family affair: Navigating racialized safety‐net systems post‐welfare reform5
Formal and Informal Shared Parenting Among Divorced and Never‐Married Parents4
Care Arrangements for Children Exposed to Maternal Incarceration: Evidence From Wisconsin4
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A Spectrum of Support: Parental Involvement in the Lives of Autistic College Students4
“The children don't do enough”: Including children in fairness perceptions of housework4
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For better or worse: Economic strain, furlough, and relationship quality during the Covid‐19 lockdown4
Adult sibling relationships: The impact of cohabitation, marriage, separation, and childbearing4
What Lies Between Them? Exploring Relational Dynamics Among Hetero‐Gay Co‐Parents4
Partner violence surrounding divorce: A record‐linkage study of wives and their husbands4
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
Estimating the percentage of men who are childfree using the National Survey of Family Growth: A comment on Bozick (2023)4
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COVID‐19 and the role of gender, earnings, and telecommuting in parents' employment4
Who Remains Single? Educational Gradients in Long‐Term Singlehood Across Ethnic Groups4
Societal transitions, ethnolinguistic identities, and marital conservatism in Central Asia4
Male Spousal Caregivers Are Increasing, but Only in Less Demanding Care Roles4
Marital Satisfaction and Parental Burnout: Longitudinal Indirect Effects of Family Emotional Expressiveness4
One parent, two parents, one sex, two sexes: Public attitudes toward single and same‐sex parents4
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Latinx LGBTQ+ youth and grandparents: Intergenerational solidarity, precarious familismo, and cisnormativity4
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Division of Housework, Sexual Intimacy, and Relationship Quality in Different‐Sex and Same‐Sex Couples3
Innovative strategies for increasing sample size and diversity in family science research3
Parent–adult child estrangement in the United States by gender, race/ethnicity, and sexuality3
Multidimensional Racism‐Related Stress and the Undermining of Black Romantic Relationships3
Involuntary childlessness in the U.S. and Israel: Pronatalism, gender, and sexual identity3
Premarital Cohabitation and Intimate Partner Violence in Urban China: Evidence From Beijing3
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Coparenting profiles and children's socioemotional outcomes in unmarried parents with low‐income3
Gender Norms in Transition? Parents' Housework and Childcare Time in the COVID ‐19 Era3
Surveilling system exposure and parental institutional disengagement3
Childhood Sexual Abuse and Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Responses to Partner Touch3
Minority stress and structural stigma predict well‐being in European LGBTQ+ parents3
Child Care Labor Division: Expectations, Experiences, and Relationship With Life Goal Satisfaction3
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The long‐term effects of formal child support3
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Beyond motherhood: Childless Black women and compulsory mothering3
Parental separation and children's genetic influences on education3
Earnings Trajectories Around Parenthood: Male Same‐Sex Couples in Denmark, the Netherlands and Sweden3
Relational Turbulence Among Retired Couples in Arab Society: An APIM Analysis3
“Mom, I'm Polyamorous”: Parental Reactions to Polyamory Identity Disclosures3
Exhausted Minds: Maternal Reflective Functioning and Parental Burnout in Mothers of Young Children in A One‐Year Longitudinal Study3
Stepfamily variation in parent–child relationship quality in later life3
A typology of US parents' mental loads: Core and episodic cognitive labor3
“We'll make it work”: Navigating surveilled living arrangements after romantic partner incarceration2
Intermarriage and housing upon separation. A matter of resources and bargaining power?2
Timing and Trajectories: Shifts in Migration and Family Formation Trajectories in Nepal2
Between‐sibling inequality in inheritances: Intergenerational support and patrilineality in South Korea2
Calling on kin: Poverty, the family safety net, and child welfare policy2
Child executive function linking marital adjustment to peer nominations of prosocial behavior2
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“Why wait?”: Early marriage among Southern college students2
Pandemic precarity: COVID‐19's impact on Mexican and Central American immigrant families2
Gender‐Role Attitudes and Marriage Desires Among Never‐Married Adults in South Korea2
Parental Sexual Orientation Socialization for Sexual Minority Youth: An Empirically‐Derived Conceptual Model2
State‐level safety net spending and educational gaps in maternal time with children2
Working from home and bi‐directional work–family conflict: Longitudinal evidence from Australian parents2
Mapping modern kinship networks: First results from the KINMATRIX survey2
A brief report on the COVID‐19 pandemic and ideal family size in the United States2
Families with more than one trans person: Investments and divestments in cisnormativity2
The digitalization of family life: A multilevel conceptual framework2
Correction to “Parental Racial‐Ethnic Socialization and Competence in Asian Families”2
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Independent or Joint? How Relative Income and Wealth Relate to Couples' Money Management in Eastern and Western Germany2
Why mothers double up: The role of demographic, economic, and family characteristics2
Maternal Identity Among Mothers Who Survived Near‐Lethal Violence2
The consequences of sibling criminal legal system contact for family life2
Geographic relocation in response to parents' health shocks: Who moves and how close?2
Trends in child support receipt and regularity in the United States, 1996–20182
Racial‐ethnic stratification in work–family arrangements among Black, Hispanic, and white couples2
Caring for Parents/In‐Laws and Cognitive Functioning of Adult Children in China2
Relationships among adult full, half, and stepsiblings: Does coresidence explain the stepgap?2
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