Journal of Marriage and Family

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Marriage and Family is 7. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Paternity leave‐taking and early childhood development: A longitudinal analysis in Singapore50
Resettlement and Relational Adjustment: Gender and Liberian Couple Relationships After Forced Migration39
The Compensatory Model of Resilience Process of Indonesian Married Individuals38
Support matters: How formal and informal institutions shape young Indians' work‐family preferences38
Early‐life disadvantage and parent‐to‐child financial transfers35
Work as overload or enhancement for family caregivers of older adults: Assessment of experienced well‐being over the day35
Between‐firm sorting and parenthood wage gaps in the US service sector34
Getting married in a highly individualized context: Commitment and gender equality matter28
Unplanned costs and benefits: Gender and spousal spillover effects of retirement on health25
Converging mothers' employment trajectories between East and West Germany? A focus on the 2008‐childcare‐reform24
The asymmetric effects of improving and declining marital satisfaction on cognitive function24
Tracking types of non‐parents in the United States23
Parents' childbearing motivations, parenting, and child adjustment: From pregnancy to20‐monthspostpartum20
How Do Employers View Applicants With and Without Children?20
Parenthood and Subjective Financial Well‐Being: Reconsidering the Economic Consequences of Parenthood20
Parenting stress in lockdown: The role of changes in Children's routines and Parents' relationship with live‐in grandparents19
What is your type? Latent classes of newly married couples' gender ideologies17
Reproductive Curation: Assisted Reproductive Technologies ( ARTs ) and Lesbian Motherhood‐Making16
The Socioeconomic Gradient in Joint Physical Custody: A Comparison of 32 Countries16
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
Differences by sexual orientation in romantic relationship attitudes and skills among adolescents15
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Attitudes toward same‐sex couple parents: A decade of change15
Trans family systems framework: Theorizing families' gender investments and divestments in cisnormativity15
Introduction to mid‐decade Special Issue on Theory and Methods15
Unexpected Changes in Rural Families: Fewer Married Parents, Lower Child Poverty14
Family and religion in flux: Relationship complexity, type of religiosity, and race/ethnicity14
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
A Typology of Younger Adults' Nuclear and Extended Family Relations in the United States13
What Happened to the Marriage Alternatives? Same‐Sex Couples in the United States and the Distinctiveness of Marriage13
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Adult children's responsiveness to parental needs during the pandemic13
Parent–Child Conflict and Prosocial Behavior in Preschoolers: Social Information Processing Perspective13
Gender differences in the economic consequences of life‐long singlehood among older white U.S. adults13
Gone too long or back too soon? Perceptions of paid parental leave‐taking and variations by gender and family structure13
Intergenerational associations of maternal depression with daughters' family formation13
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Parenting stress and attachment insecurity in young adulthood: A social relations model12
A longitudinal dyadic analysis of gender ideology during the transition into parenthood12
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Couple Mobility and Employment Patterns. A Gender Perspective in Six European Countries12
How gender shapes sibling tension in adulthood following parental death12
Keeping us young? Grandchild caregiving and older adults' cognitive functioning12
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
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 pandemic11
I am home. The circle is complete: The reunification of fostered/adopted relatives11
Theorizing White heteropatriarchal supremacy, marriage fundamentalism, and the mechanisms that maintain family inequality11
Associations between parental precarious work schedules and child behavior problems among low‐income families11
Does perceived gender conflict shape young Koreans' attitudes toward marriage and childbearing?10
Latent change modeling of Latino parent–child conflict and pathways to mental health10
Effects of welfare reform on maternal engagement and involvement with young adolescents10
“If I got it, she got it”: Black mothers' food provision and symbiotic mothering10
Grandparents' and domestic helpers' childcare support: Implications for well‐being in Asian families10
Parental Time Use and the Gendered Socialization of Adolescents' Housework in China: A Cumulative Perspective10
The Job Task Penalty for Motherhood10
Black–White disparities in nuclear family trajectories and parents' postsecondary transfers to adult children10
Race and ethnic differences in step‐ versus biological parent support to adult children10
Sexual passion in couple relationships: Emerging patterns from dyadic response surface analysis10
Emerging digital inequality in early life: Parenting and differential usage of digital devices among urban preschoolers in China10
Intimate Partner Violence: A Dyadic Examination of Self‐Differentiation and Responsive Caregiving10
Differently Educated US Couples and Their Work‐Family Arrangements, 1968–202310
Negotiating good motherhood: Foodwork, emotion work, and downscaling9
Child support debt and the well‐being of disadvantaged fathers of color9
Adultification in the context of childhood exposure to domestic violence9
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The emotional management of motherhood: Foodwork, maternal guilt, and emotion work9
Interparental conflict and mindful parenting practices: Transactional effects between mothers and fathers9
Stepfamily formation and the educational outcomes of children in Sweden9
Educational experiences and American young adults' childbearing goals: A research note9
Mealtime emotion work: Gendered politics of care and power at the table9
Burdens of the what‐if: Vicarious anti‐Black racism and stress for Black mothers9
Does income moderate basic relationship processes?8
Young‐age exposure to armed conflict and women's experiences of intimate partner violence8
Early Maternal Parenting Profiles and Subsequent Child Well‐Being in an Asian Cohort8
“I don't try to seek him out”: Views of child support over time8
Parental Gender and Adult Attachment Style in the Transition to Parenthood: Implications for Parent–Infant Interaction, Parenting Stress, and Parental Leave Practices8
Division of Labor, Multiplication of Gratitude? Gratitude and Resentment Within Households8
Sibling Dynamics in Adult Children's Support Across Parental Widowhood Phases in Korea8
Qualitative family research: Innovative, flexible, theoretical, reflexive8
Redoing Family After Estrangement8
Mate preferences and marriage‐related behaviors: The case of Japan8
A Brief Report Comparing Younger and Older Cohabitors8
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
Mothering in the streets: Familial adaptation strategies of street‐identified Black American mothers8
“Normal” childhood in the lives of financially struggling white daughters and mothers8
Stability and relevance of marriage desires: Importance of age norms and partnering opportunities8
Forgotten Family Relationships: How Incarcerated Brothers Experience Sibling Support7
Two sides of a coin: The relationship between work autonomy and childbearing7
Parent–teen dyadic experiences of racism: Implications for Black familial racial socialization7
Indian Wives of Incarcerated Men Tell Their Own Stories: An Intersectional Narrative Analysis of Disenfranchisement and Resilience7
Why Parenthood Strains Relationships: Investigating the Mechanisms Behind Declining Relationship Satisfaction7
The longitudinal associations between personality traits and psychological intimate partner violence7
Gender inequality in intergenerational contact after parental separation in the digital era7
Temporary Aid for Needy Families as family policy for first time mothers7
The Changing Links Between Socioeconomic Status and Single Women's Entry Into Parenthood7
Stigma arising from youth police contact: The protective role ofmother–youthcloseness7
Assessing the deinstitutionalization of marriage thesis: Changes in the meaning of cohabitation over the relationship life course7
Cash‐for‐Care and the Cost of Parenthood: Evidence From Same‐Sex and Adoptive Parents7
Correction to “Parent–child contact, closeness, and conflict across the transition to adulthood”7
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