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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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Unplanned costs and benefits: Gender and spousal spillover effects of retirement on health40
The Compensatory Model of Resilience Process of Indonesian Married Individuals40
Getting married in a highly individualized context: Commitment and gender equality matter32
Resettlement and Relational Adjustment: Gender and Liberian Couple Relationships After Forced Migration31
Work as overload or enhancement for family caregivers of older adults: Assessment of experienced well‐being over the day31
Converging mothers' employment trajectories between East and West Germany? A focus on the 2008‐childcare‐reform31
Support matters: How formal and informal institutions shape young Indians' work‐family preferences27
Early‐life disadvantage and parent‐to‐child financial transfers25
Between‐firm sorting and parenthood wage gaps in the US service sector25
Paternal incarceration and children's reading achievement: The role of maternal caregiving quality25
The asymmetric effects of improving and declining marital satisfaction on cognitive function24
Paternity leave‐taking and early childhood development: A longitudinal analysis in Singapore23
Relationship quality in midlife: A comparison of dating, living apart together, cohabitation, and marriage23
Attitudes toward same‐sex couple parents: A decade of change20
Parents' childbearing motivations, parenting, and child adjustment: From pregnancy to20‐monthspostpartum18
Parenthood and Subjective Financial Well‐Being: Reconsidering the Economic Consequences of Parenthood18
Parenting stress in lockdown: The role of changes in Children's routines and Parents' relationship with live‐in grandparents17
How Do Employers View Applicants With and Without Children?17
Differences by sexual orientation in romantic relationship attitudes and skills among adolescents16
The impact of narratives of the future on fertility intentions in Norway16
Tracking types of non‐parents in the United States16
Privileged dependence, precarious autonomy: Parent/young adult relationships through the lens of COVID‐1915
How Does Taking Parental Leave Affect the Wages of Highly Educated Parents?15
What is your type? Latent classes of newly married couples' gender ideologies14
Introduction to mid‐decade Special Issue on Theory and Methods14
“You're biracial but…”: Multiracial socialization discourse among mommy bloggers with Black and non‐Black multiracial children14
Familism among Latino/a adolescents: Evidence from time‐use data14
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Trans family systems framework: Theorizing families' gender investments and divestments in cisnormativity13
Intergenerational associations of maternal depression with daughters' family formation13
Maternal differential treatment and adult children's well‐being when mothers have cognitive impairment13
Gender differences in the economic consequences of life‐long singlehood among older white U.S. adults13
Family and religion in flux: Relationship complexity, type of religiosity, and race/ethnicity13
Adult children's responsiveness to parental needs during the pandemic12
Leveraging protections, navigating punishments: How adult children of undocumented immigrants mediate illegality in Latinx families12
Occupational autonomy, paid maternity leave, and mothers' return to work after childbirth12
How gender shapes sibling tension in adulthood following parental death12
A Typology of Younger Adults' Nuclear and Extended Family Relations in the United States12
Gone too long or back too soon? Perceptions of paid parental leave‐taking and variations by gender and family structure12
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Telecommuting and gender inequalities in parents' paid and unpaid work before and during theCOVID‐19 pandemic11
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Lingering shadows of childhood corporal punishment: Family trajectories across decades11
A longitudinal dyadic analysis of gender ideology during the transition into parenthood11
Intergenerational and digital solidarity: Associations with depressive symptoms during the COVID‐19 pandemic11
Does perceived gender conflict shape young Koreans' attitudes toward marriage and childbearing?11
Parenting stress and attachment insecurity in young adulthood: A social relations model11
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State minimum wage increases delay marriage and reduce divorce among low‐wage households11
Emerging digital inequality in early life: Parenting and differential usage of digital devices among urban preschoolers in China10
Associations between parental precarious work schedules and child behavior problems among low‐income families10
Black–White disparities in nuclear family trajectories and parents' postsecondary transfers to adult children10
Adultification in the context of childhood exposure to domestic violence10
I am home. The circle is complete: The reunification of fostered/adopted relatives10
Theorizing White heteropatriarchal supremacy, marriage fundamentalism, and the mechanisms that maintain family inequality10
Grandparents' and domestic helpers' childcare support: Implications for well‐being in Asian families10
Effects of welfare reform on maternal engagement and involvement with young adolescents10
Latent change modeling of Latino parent–child conflict and pathways to mental health10
Keeping us young? Grandchild caregiving and older adults' cognitive functioning10
Sexual passion in couple relationships: Emerging patterns from dyadic response surface analysis10
Race and ethnic differences in step‐ versus biological parent support to adult children10
Interparental conflict and mindful parenting practices: Transactional effects between mothers and fathers10
Negotiating good motherhood: Foodwork, emotion work, and downscaling9
“If I got it, she got it”: Black mothers' food provision and symbiotic mothering9
Child support debt and the well‐being of disadvantaged fathers of color9
Intimate Partner Violence: A Dyadic Examination of Self‐Differentiation and Responsive Caregiving9
Mealtime emotion work: Gendered politics of care and power at the table9
The emotional management of motherhood: Foodwork, maternal guilt, and emotion work9
Educational experiences and American young adults' childbearing goals: A research note9
Family socioeconomic status and children's screen time9
Converging trends in developmental child care time by fathers' education? Comment on Cha and Park (2021)8
Other adults in the United States: Improving survey measures of youths' non‐parental adult relationships8
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
Burdens of the what‐if: Vicarious anti‐Black racism and stress for Black mothers8
Early Maternal Parenting Profiles and Subsequent Child Well‐Being in an Asian Cohort8
Frontline love: Romantic partners of frontline doctors and nurses during the New York City COVID‐19 outbreak8
Mothering in the streets: Familial adaptation strategies of street‐identified Black American mothers8
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Stepfamily formation and the educational outcomes of children in Sweden8
Does income moderate basic relationship processes?8
Assessing the deinstitutionalization of marriage thesis: Changes in the meaning of cohabitation over the relationship life course8
Stability and relevance of marriage desires: Importance of age norms and partnering opportunities7
A Brief Report Comparing Younger and Older Cohabitors7
Mate preferences and marriage‐related behaviors: The case of Japan7
Effects of extended paternity leave on family dynamics7
“I don't try to seek him out”: Views of child support over time7
Gender inequality in intergenerational contact after parental separation in the digital era7
Parent–teen dyadic experiences of racism: Implications for Black familial racial socialization7
Forgotten Family Relationships: How Incarcerated Brothers Experience Sibling Support7
Desired fertility and educational aspirations: Adolescent goals in rapidly changing social contexts7
Stigma arising from youth police contact: The protective role ofmother–youthcloseness7
Qualitative family research: Innovative, flexible, theoretical, reflexive7
“Normal” childhood in the lives of financially struggling white daughters and mothers7
Parental Gender and Adult Attachment Style in the Transition to Parenthood: Implications for Parent–Infant Interaction, Parenting Stress, and Parental Leave Practices7
The longitudinal associations between personality traits and psychological intimate partner violence7
Two sides of a coin: The relationship between work autonomy and childbearing7
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The rising midlife first marriage rate in the U.S.6
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
Marginalized identities, healthcare discrimination, and parental stress about COVID‐196
Correction to “Parent–child contact, closeness, and conflict across the transition to adulthood”6
Indian Wives of Incarcerated Men Tell Their Own Stories: An Intersectional Narrative Analysis of Disenfranchisement and Resilience6
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An increasing disinterest in fatherhood among childless men in the United States: A brief report6
The Changing Links Between Socioeconomic Status and Single Women's Entry Into Parenthood6
The payroll tax contribution limit and women's labor market outcomes6
Maternal education, early language skills, and mother–child interactions across three welfare states5
Classifying and mapping gender ideologies globally: Gender attitudes in 47 countries at the turn of the 21st century5
How couples meet and assortative mating in Canada5
Administrative burdens as a family affair: Navigating racialized safety‐net systems post‐welfare reform5
Childlessness and sibling positioning in upward intergenerational support: Insights from Singapore5
Friend, foe, or forget ‘em?: The quality of LGBTQ adult sibling relationships5
Cultural repertoires and status safeguarding among rural middle‐class parents5
Sex of Child, the Fatherhood Bonus, and Fathers' Work Hours5
Defining and measuring family: Lessons learned from LGBTQ+ people and families5
Paternal involvement and children's internalization of gender roles in early childhood5
“I have a certain standard:” HBCU women's heterosexual aspirations and identity negotiation5
Racial/ethnic differences in living arrangements, distant relations, and later‐life mental health5
Using experiments to study families and intimate relationships5
How gendered lived experiences shape sex preference attitudes in contemporary urban China5
The ties that bind: Questions for studying families in neighborhood contexts5
“It changed the atmosphere surrounding the baby I did have”: Making sense of reproduction during the COVID‐19 pandemic4
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“The children don't do enough”: Including children in fairness perceptions of housework4
Climate change worries and fertility intentions: Insights from three EU countries4
Slow to launch: Young men's parental coresidence and employment outcomes4
Male Spousal Caregivers Are Increasing, but Only in Less Demanding Care Roles4
Who Remains Single? Educational Gradients in Long‐Term Singlehood Across Ethnic Groups4
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Partner violence surrounding divorce: A record‐linkage study of wives and their husbands4
Longitudinal associations between sibling relationship quality and child adjustment after divorce4
Exploring African American marital strengths during COVID‐194
The fall and rise of parental financial investments during the COVID‐19 pandemic4
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
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Formal and Informal Shared Parenting Among Divorced and Never‐Married Parents4
Conjugal testamentary practices in Canada: The gendered effect of children from other unions4
The gendered economic consequences of forming a single‐parent household after separation4
Preschools, family social capital, and child development in Cambodia4
One parent, two parents, one sex, two sexes: Public attitudes toward single and same‐sex parents4
Multidirectional carework across borders: Latina immigrant women negotiating motherhood and daughterhood4
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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Societal transitions, ethnolinguistic identities, and marital conservatism in Central Asia3
For better or worse: Economic strain, furlough, and relationship quality during the Covid‐19 lockdown3
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Child Care Labor Division: Expectations, Experiences, and Relationship With Life Goal Satisfaction3
The long‐term effects of formal child support3
Adult sibling relationships: The impact of cohabitation, marriage, separation, and childbearing3
Latinx LGBTQ+ youth and grandparents: Intergenerational solidarity, precarious familismo, and cisnormativity3
A typology of US parents' mental loads: Core and episodic cognitive labor3
Stepfamily variation in parent–child relationship quality in later life3
Minority stress and structural stigma predict well‐being in European LGBTQ+ parents3
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COVID‐19 and the role of gender, earnings, and telecommuting in parents' employment3
Coparenting profiles and children's socioemotional outcomes in unmarried parents with low‐income3
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Multidimensional Racism‐Related Stress and the Undermining of Black Romantic Relationships3
Involuntary childlessness in the U.S. and Israel: Pronatalism, gender, and sexual identity3
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Parent–adult child estrangement in the United States by gender, race/ethnicity, and sexuality2
Pandemic precarity: COVID‐19's impact on Mexican and Central American immigrant families2
Why mothers double up: The role of demographic, economic, and family characteristics2
Innovative strategies for increasing sample size and diversity in family science research2
Relationships among adult full, half, and stepsiblings: Does coresidence explain the stepgap?2
Mapping modern kinship networks: First results from the KINMATRIX survey2
Intermarriage and housing upon separation. A matter of resources and bargaining power?2
Childhood Sexual Abuse and Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Responses to Partner Touch2
Working from home and bi‐directional work–family conflict: Longitudinal evidence from Australian parents2
“Thank u, next”? Repartnering and the household division of labor2
Beyond motherhood: Childless Black women and compulsory mothering2
The consequences of sibling criminal legal system contact for family life2
Child executive function linking marital adjustment to peer nominations of prosocial behavior2
Surveilling system exposure and parental institutional disengagement2
Between‐sibling inequality in inheritances: Intergenerational support and patrilineality in South Korea2
A brief report on the COVID‐19 pandemic and ideal family size in the United States2
Timing of early childcare take‐up in Germany: An application of rational choice theory2
State‐level safety net spending and educational gaps in maternal time with children2
Making it work: Fathers' nonstandard work schedules and parenting activities2
Relational Turbulence Among Retired Couples in Arab Society: An APIM Analysis2
Social change and relationship quality among sexual minority individuals: Does minority stress still matter?2
“Mom, I'm Polyamorous”: Parental Reactions to Polyamory Identity Disclosures2
“We'll make it work”: Navigating surveilled living arrangements after romantic partner incarceration2
Geographic relocation in response to parents' health shocks: Who moves and how close?2
Sleep in adolescence: Considering family structure and family complexity2
Parental Sexual Orientation Socialization for Sexual Minority Youth: An Empirically‐Derived Conceptual Model2
Parental separation and children's genetic influences on education2
Calling on kin: Poverty, the family safety net, and child welfare policy2
Reciprocal influences among marital relationship, Parent–adolescent relationship, and youth depressive symptoms2
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