Journal of Marriage and Family

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Marriage and Family is 1. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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Work as overload or enhancement for family caregivers of older adults: Assessment of experienced well‐being over the day96
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Support matters: How formal and informal institutions shape young Indians' work‐family preferences31
Paternal incarceration and children's reading achievement: The role of maternal caregiving quality29
Unplanned costs and benefits: Gender and spousal spillover effects of retirement on health27
Paternity leave‐taking and early childhood development: A longitudinal analysis in Singapore26
Converging mothers' employment trajectories between East and West Germany? A focus on the 2008‐childcare‐reform25
Family and household sources of poverty for Black, Hispanic, and White newborns24
Early‐life disadvantage and parent‐to‐child financial transfers24
Between‐firm sorting and parenthood wage gaps in the US service sector22
Getting married in a highly individualized context: Commitment and gender equality matter21
The asymmetric effects of improving and declining marital satisfaction on cognitive function20
Relationship quality in midlife: A comparison of dating, living apart together, cohabitation, and marriage20
Social norms, agency, and marriage aspirations in Malawi20
Privileged dependence, precarious autonomy: Parent/young adult relationships through the lens of COVID‐1919
Familism among Latino/a adolescents: Evidence from time‐use data19
Parents' childbearing motivations, parenting, and child adjustment: From pregnancy to20‐monthspostpartum19
Differences by sexual orientation in romantic relationship attitudes and skills among adolescents18
Parenting stress in lockdown: The role of changes in Children's routines and Parents' relationship with live‐in grandparents18
Attitudes toward same‐sex couple parents: A decade of change18
Tracking types of non‐parents in the United States16
The impact of narratives of the future on fertility intentions in Norway15
What is your type? Latent classes of newly married couples' gender ideologies15
Family and religion in flux: Relationship complexity, type of religiosity, and race/ethnicity15
Introduction to mid‐decade Special Issue on Theory and Methods14
Trans family systems framework: Theorizing families' gender investments and divestments in cisnormativity14
“You're biracial but…”: Multiracial socialization discourse among mommy bloggers with Black and non‐Black multiracial children14
Does the impact of parental death vary by parental socioeconomic status? A study of children's educational and occupational attainment13
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Parenting stress and attachment insecurity in young adulthood: A social relations model13
Maternal differential treatment and adult children's well‐being when mothers have cognitive impairment13
Intergenerational associations of maternal depression with daughters' family formation12
Occupational autonomy, paid maternity leave, and mothers' return to work after childbirth12
Adult children's responsiveness to parental needs during the pandemic12
A longitudinal dyadic analysis of gender ideology during the transition into parenthood12
Gender differences in the economic consequences of life‐long singlehood among older white U.S. adults12
Telecommuting and gender inequalities in parents' paid and unpaid work before and during theCOVID‐19 pandemic11
Gone too long or back too soon? Perceptions of paid parental leave‐taking and variations by gender and family structure11
Leveraging protections, navigating punishments: How adult children of undocumented immigrants mediate illegality in Latinx families11
How gender shapes sibling tension in adulthood following parental death11
Associations between parental precarious work schedules and child behavior problems among low‐income families10
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I am home. The circle is complete: The reunification of fostered/adopted relatives10
Grandparents' and domestic helpers' childcare support: Implications for well‐being in Asian families10
Emerging digital inequality in early life: Parenting and differential usage of digital devices among urban preschoolers in China10
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Sexual passion in couple relationships: Emerging patterns from dyadic response surface analysis10
Lingering shadows of childhood corporal punishment: Family trajectories across decades10
Keeping us young? Grandchild caregiving and older adults' cognitive functioning10
Does perceived gender conflict shape young Koreans' attitudes toward marriage and childbearing?10
Intergenerational and digital solidarity: Associations with depressive symptoms during the COVID‐19 pandemic9
Mealtime emotion work: Gendered politics of care and power at the table9
Theorizing White heteropatriarchal supremacy, marriage fundamentalism, and the mechanisms that maintain family inequality9
Negotiating good motherhood: Foodwork, emotion work, and downscaling9
Effects of welfare reform on maternal engagement and involvement with young adolescents9
State minimum wage increases delay marriage and reduce divorce among low‐wage households9
Educational experiences and American young adults' childbearing goals: A research note9
Black–White disparities in nuclear family trajectories and parents' postsecondary transfers to adult children9
Adultification in the context of childhood exposure to domestic violence8
Child support debt and the well‐being of disadvantaged fathers of color8
Burdens of the what‐if: Vicarious anti‐Black racism and stress for Black mothers8
“If I got it, she got it”: Black mothers' food provision and symbiotic mothering8
Family socioeconomic status and children's screen time8
Race and ethnic differences in step‐ versus biological parent support to adult children8
Issue Information7
Other adults in the United States: Improving survey measures of youths' non‐parental adult relationships7
Does income moderate basic relationship processes?7
“Normal” childhood in the lives of financially struggling white daughters and mothers7
Latent change modeling of Latino parent–child conflict and pathways to mental health7
Frontline love: Romantic partners of frontline doctors and nurses during the New York City COVID‐19 outbreak7
Converging trends in developmental child care time by fathers' education? Comment on Cha and Park (2021)7
My relatives are waiting: Barriers to tribal enrollment of fostered/adopted American Indians7
“I don't try to seek him out”: Views of child support over time7
Interparental conflict and mindful parenting practices: Transactional effects between mothers and fathers7
Mothering in the streets: Familial adaptation strategies of street‐identified Black American mothers7
Stepfamily formation and the educational outcomes of children in Sweden7
Young‐age exposure to armed conflict and women's experiences of intimate partner violence7
Parent–teen dyadic experiences of racism: Implications for Black familial racial socialization7
The emotional management of motherhood: Foodwork, maternal guilt, and emotion work7
Stability and relevance of marriage desires: Importance of age norms and partnering opportunities6
Two sides of a coin: The relationship between work autonomy and childbearing6
The rising midlife first marriage rate in the U.S.6
Mate preferences and marriage‐related behaviors: The case of Japan6
Desired fertility and educational aspirations: Adolescent goals in rapidly changing social contexts6
Qualitative family research: Innovative, flexible, theoretical, reflexive6
Stigma arising from youth police contact: The protective role ofmother–youthcloseness6
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Gender inequality in intergenerational contact after parental separation in the digital era6
The longitudinal associations between personality traits and psychological intimate partner violence6
Temporary Aid for Needy Families as family policy for first time mothers6
Effects of extended paternity leave on family dynamics6
Revisiting the polygyny and intimate partner violence connection: The role of religion and wife's rank in Nigeria6
Assessing the deinstitutionalization of marriage thesis: Changes in the meaning of cohabitation over the relationship life course6
Parenthood, stress, and well‐being among cisgender and transgender gay and lesbian adults5
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Using experiments to study families and intimate relationships5
The payroll tax contribution limit and women's labor market outcomes5
Correction to “Parent–child contact, closeness, and conflict across the transition to adulthood”5
Friend, foe, or forget ‘em?: The quality of LGBTQ adult sibling relationships5
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Cultural repertoires and status safeguarding among rural middle‐class parents5
Childlessness and sibling positioning in upward intergenerational support: Insights from Singapore5
Mothers', Fathers' and Siblings' Housework Time Within Family Households5
An increasing disinterest in fatherhood among childless men in the United States: A brief report5
Classifying and mapping gender ideologies globally: Gender attitudes in 47 countries at the turn of the 21st century5
“I have a certain standard:” HBCU women's heterosexual aspirations and identity negotiation5
Estimating the percentage of men who are childfree using the National Survey of Family Growth: A comment on Bozick (2023)4
Intraindividual differences in adolescent threat appraisals and anxiety associated with Interparental conflict4
Paternal involvement and children's internalization of gender roles in early childhood4
The ties that bind: Questions for studying families in neighborhood contexts4
One parent, two parents, one sex, two sexes: Public attitudes toward single and same‐sex parents4
How couples meet and assortative mating in Canada4
Marginalized identities, healthcare discrimination, and parental stress about COVID‐194
Slow to launch: Young men's parental coresidence and employment outcomes4
Partner violence surrounding divorce: A record‐linkage study of wives and their husbands4
The gendered economic consequences of forming a single‐parent household after separation4
Conjugal testamentary practices in Canada: The gendered effect of children from other unions4
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
Administrative burdens as a family affair: Navigating racialized safety‐net systems post‐welfare reform4
Defining and measuring family: Lessons learned from LGBTQ+ people and families4
Maternal education, early language skills, and mother–child interactions across three welfare states4
Exploring African American marital strengths during COVID‐194
Longitudinal associations between sibling relationship quality and child adjustment after divorce4
Preschools, family social capital, and child development in Cambodia4
“The children don't do enough”: Including children in fairness perceptions of housework4
Climate change worries and fertility intentions: Insights from three EU countries4
The fall and rise of parental financial investments during the COVID‐19 pandemic4
How gendered lived experiences shape sex preference attitudes in contemporary urban China4
Racial/ethnic differences in living arrangements, distant relations, and later‐life mental health4
From the Editor4
Multidirectional carework across borders: Latina immigrant women negotiating motherhood and daughterhood4
Latinx LGBTQ+ youth and grandparents: Intergenerational solidarity, precarious familismo, and cisnormativity4
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Coparenting profiles and children's socioemotional outcomes in unmarried parents with low‐income3
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Minority stress and structural stigma predict well‐being in European LGBTQ+ parents3
Reciprocal influences among marital relationship, Parent–adolescent relationship, and youth depressive symptoms3
A typology of US parents' mental loads: Core and episodic cognitive labor3
For better or worse: Economic strain, furlough, and relationship quality during the Covid‐19 lockdown3
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“Thank u, next”? Repartnering and the household division of labor3
Beyond motherhood: Childless Black women and compulsory mothering3
Involuntary childlessness in the U.S. and Israel: Pronatalism, gender, and sexual identity3
Adult sibling relationships: The impact of cohabitation, marriage, separation, and childbearing3
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“It changed the atmosphere surrounding the baby I did have”: Making sense of reproduction during the COVID‐19 pandemic3
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Societal transitions, ethnolinguistic identities, and marital conservatism in Central Asia3
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Social change and relationship quality among sexual minority individuals: Does minority stress still matter?3
COVID‐19 and the role of gender, earnings, and telecommuting in parents' employment3
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The long‐term effects of formal child support2
Parent–adult child estrangement in the United States by gender, race/ethnicity, and sexuality2
Timing of early childcare take‐up in Germany: An application of rational choice theory2
“Mom, I'm Polyamorous”: Parental Reactions to Polyamory Identity Disclosures2
Why mothers double up: The role of demographic, economic, and family characteristics2
The consequences of sibling criminal legal system contact for family life2
A brief report on the COVID‐19 pandemic and ideal family size in the United States2
Calling on kin: Poverty, the family safety net, and child welfare policy2
Between‐sibling inequality in inheritances: Intergenerational support and patrilineality in South Korea2
Making it work: Fathers' nonstandard work schedules and parenting activities2
Incarceration and family instability: Considering relationship churning2
Sleep in adolescence: Considering family structure and family complexity2
Innovative strategies for increasing sample size and diversity in family science research2
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
Geographic relocation in response to parents' health shocks: Who moves and how close?2
“We'll make it work”: Navigating surveilled living arrangements after romantic partner incarceration2
When push comes to shove: Local violence and residential mobility among families2
Parental separation and children's genetic influences on education2
Stepfamily variation in parent–child relationship quality in later life2
Child Custody Preferences in Light of Attitudes Toward the Couple's Division of Labor in Portugal2
Surveilling system exposure and parental institutional disengagement2
Intermarriage and housing upon separation. A matter of resources and bargaining power?2
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Mapping modern kinship networks: First results from the KINMATRIX survey2
“Doing authority”: Stories of parental authority across three generations1
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How much his or her job loss influences fertility: A couple approach1
Racial‐ethnic stratification in work–family arrangements among Black, Hispanic, and white couples1
Partner support and connection protect couples during pregnancy: A daily diary investigation1
Relationships among adult full, half, and stepsiblings: Does coresidence explain the stepgap?1
“Why wait?”: Early marriage among Southern college students1
Deprivation and intra‐family conflict: Children as agents in the Family Stress Model1
Creating Versus Negating Togetherness: Perceptual and Emotional Differences in Parent‐Teenager Reported Time1
The changing face of intimate premarital relationships in Taiwan1
Supervised machine learning for exploratory analysis in family research1
Risk tolerance and fertility: Evidence from a lottery question in Italy1
Childhood exposure to family violence and adult sibling relationships1
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Early marriage and health among women at midlife: Evidence from India1
Families with more than one trans person: Investments and divestments in cisnormativity1
Co‐residence beliefs 1973–2018: Older adults feel differently than younger adults1
The panic stays in your mind…concentrating more on the worries than the relationship”: Intimate partnerships during COVID‐19 for immigrant women in New York City1
Intersectional bonds: Delinquency, arrest, and changing family social capital during adolescence1
Parental absence during childhood and intergenerational solidarity in adulthood in China1
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Cognitive housework and Parents' relationship satisfaction1
The digitalization of family life: A multilevel conceptual framework1
Pandemic precarity: COVID‐19's impact on Mexican and Central American immigrant families1
Child executive function linking marital adjustment to peer nominations of prosocial behavior1
Trends in child support receipt and regularity in the United States, 1996–20181
Relationship satisfaction and commitment in the transition to parenthood: A couple‐centered approach1
Time cannot heal all wounds: Wealth trajectories of divorcees and the married1
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