Journal of Family Issues

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Family Issues 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Parental Recollections of Bullying26
The Role of Adverse Childhood Experiences in the Trajectories to Adulthood of Chinese Youth: A Retrospective Study22
The Remarriage Belief Inventory: A Validation Study in the Remarried Portuguese Population20
Advice for New Stepparents From the Perspective of Stepchildren Who Experienced Stepfamily Formation During Adolescence17
Feminist Mothering and Primary Prevention of Gendered Violence: Insights From Australian Mothers Raising Sons13
Weathering the Storm: Longitudinal Evidence on Women’s Changing Family Relationships During COVID-1913
Parenting Immigrants: Understanding How Family Relationships Impact the Wellbeing of Older Chinese Immigrants Living on the Gold Coast, Australia13
Is it an Impossible Task? Exploring the Lived Experiences of Christian Parents With Young Children in the UK12
Educational Assortative Mating and Its Impact on Marital Quality in China11
Latent Class of Child-Rearing Values and Their Relationships With Fertility10
It’s the Thought that Counts: Pregnancy Intention and Relationship Stressors Across SES10
Infidelity and Anger within Incarcerated Couples: A Brief Report10
Attitudes Toward Heterosexual and Lesbian Stepmothers: An Experimental Test in the Italian Context10
The Effect of Maternal Parenting Attitudes on Family Functioning10
Imbalanced Sex Ratios and Marital Transitions in Mexico10
Mothering Black Adolescents: Personal and Adolescent-Experienced Racial Discrimination, Superwoman Schema, and Black American Mothers’ Mental Health10
Through Their Eyes: “My Mother Hit Me Because I’m a Girl…” The Looking-Glass Self and Parents’ Perception of Childhood Maltreatment10
Will Adults’ Happiness be Affected by Childhood Parental Divorce? Evidence From China10
Children’s Contact With Fathers Who Never Co-Resided With Them and Father–Child Relationship Quality at age 910
Presence Matters: Perceptions of Emotional and Social Involvement of Black Fathers9
Navigating Parenthood in the Pandemic: Revealing the Trade-offs of Childcare Choices Through Conjoint Analysis9
“Me Siento Mal”: Mexican and Central American Immigrants’ Narratives on the Emotional Costs of Extended Parental Separation9
Coparenting Quality During COVID-19: Exploring Gender Differences Using a Mixed Methods Approach8
The Relationship Between Family Socio-Economic Status and Preschool Children’s Social Competence: The Chain Mediating Role of Family Internal Support and Children’s Empathy8
A Hybrid Model for the Intergenerational Relationship Between Maternal Poverty and Their Young Adult Child’s Self-Esteem8
Parental Alienating Behaviours Experienced by Alienated Grandparents8
When Working From Home Fails to Support Work–Life Balance: The Role of Childcare- and Work-Related Demands8
How Parents Play: Play Style as a Function of Gender of Parent, Gender of Child, and Play Context8
Acculturation and Resilience Influences from the Latino Fathers’ Perspective8
The Inverse Association Between Number of Siblings and Divorce: New Evidence From China and Europe8
Grandparenting and Well-Being of the Elderly in China8
“Mature Enough to Handle it?”: Gendered Parental Interventions in and Adolescents’ Reactions to Technology Use During the Pandemic8
Mothers and Others: How Collective Strategies Reproduce Social Norms Around Motherhood8
Who You Live With Matters: Living Arrangements and Life Expectancy With the Evidence From Eighteen-Year Follow-Up Data8
Early Life Family Care for and With Migrants: The Development of a Transcultural Transition Mentoring Competence Profile8
Understanding Military Motherhood: How the Armed Forces’ Childcare and Family Leave Policies Impact Servicewomen with Young Children7
Reasons and Future Plans of Couples Who Experienced Infidelity and Stayed Together7
‘It’s Nothing Serious I Suppose’ Family Help-Seeking for Adolescent Social Anxiety7
A Qualitative Study on How Caribbean Coparents Navigate Communication After Divorce and Separation7
Foster Caregiver Experiences: Implications for Retention and Satisfaction7
Perspectives on Sexual Socialization from a Sample of Black Heterosexual College Women7
The Racialization of Latino Families7
Attitudes and Feelings Among Married Mothers and Single Mothers by Choice During the Covid-19 Crisis7
Portraits of Life After Loss: Understanding Parental Loss Within A Social Context7
Father Involvement in Asian Families: A Systematic Literature Review7
Ready for Parenthood? On Intensive Parenting Ideals and Fertility7
‘We Call It the Square Au Pair’. Exploring Working Mothers’ Experiences of Using Digital Devices as ‘Babysitters’7
“Once You Become a Parent, You are a Parent Forever”: An Examination of Memorable Messages About Having Children and Becoming a Parent6
Coparenting, Couple Conflict, Social Support, and Relationship Quality: A Dyadic Exploration of Couples From LIEM Backgrounds6
Parents’ Family Coping Strategies during the Pandemic: Effects on Parent and Child Well-Being6
Macro-Level Correlates of Early Marriage in Asia6
How to Find Mr/Miss Right? The Mechanism of Search Among Online Daters in Shanghai6
Quality and Quantity of Grandparent Contact: Associations with Late Adolescents’ Psychological Adjustment6
Socialization Past and Present: Intergenerational Transmission of Parenting Behaviors in Multispecies Families6
International Displacement and Family Stress in Latin America6
Differences in Life Satisfaction and Emotions by Romantic Coupling and Sexual Orientation6
A Sense of Connectedness in Reproductive Donation. Contrasting Policy With Donor and Donor Kin Lived Experience6
Exploring the Psychosocial Experiences of Within the Family Adoptees: An initiative for Mental Well-Being6
Motherhood and Childfree Choice: Accounts of Indian Childfree Women6
Trends in the Prevalence of Childfree Women in the Philippines, 1993–20226
Toward a Transition Transaction Theory: Understanding the Father–Child Relationship6
The Long-Term Impact of Family Experiences in Adolescence on Mother–Child Relationships in Early Adulthood6
Exploring Linkages Between Mother–Child and Sibling Relationship Quality and Prosocial Behavior Between School-Aged and Adolescent Siblings6
“I Would Like to, But My World Wouldn’t End If I Didn’t”: Marital Aspirations Among Sexual Minority Young Adults6
Racial Disparity in Parenting Practice Among Parents With Young Children6
Lower-Income Nonresident Fathers’ Self-Perceptions About Their Parenting Quality and Relationships With Children5
Joint Utility or Sub-optimal Outcomes? Household Income Development of Same-Sex and Different-Sex Couples Transitioning to Parenthood in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden5
Vulnerability of Poverty between Male and Female Headed Household in Tanzania5
Families in Multi-Problem Situations in India: Exploration From the Fifth Round of the National Family Health Survey5
‘It’s a Man’s Job’: Doing Gender and Male Gatekeeping in the Division of Household Labor5
The Heterogeneous Effect of Parental Investment on Old-Age Support: Only Children As the Main Caregivers in China5
The Impact of Financial Capability on Household Economic Resilience: Perspectives and Insights From China5
Men’s Marriage Trends in Asia: Changes and Continuities5
Effects of Intimate Partner Violence Prevention Programming on Social Support, Coparenting, and Parenting Among Teen Parents: A Pilot Study5
Parents’ Experiences in the Coming Out Process of LGB Individuals: A Focus on Mothers’ Journeys5
Single Motherhood and Stress in a Kenyan Slum: The Importance of Paternal and Kin Support5
How Nonreligious Parents Approach the (Non)Religious Socialization of Their Children5
Family Dynamics in Cross-National Families With Young Children in Singapore5
Marital Beliefs and Decisions Among Young Chinese Medical Workers5
The Moderating Role of Parent–Grandparent Co-Parenting in Parental Stress and Mental Health4
Balancing Work and Care: Exploring the Effects of Women’s Paid Employment on Children’s Development4
Singleness and the Pandemic Dating Recession4
Longitudinal Psychological Family Studies in Austria: A Scoping Review4
The Influence of Work–Family Conflict on Parental Burnout in China: Moderating Effect of Spousal Support and its Gender Differences4
Children’s Experiences of Lockdown and Social Distancing in the Covid-19 Pandemic4
Are Intensive Parenting Attitudes Internationally Generalizable? The Case of Sweden4
Siblinghood Amongst Older Adults: What Being a Sibling or Having Siblings Means4
Fatherlessness: Black Jamaican Mothers’ Perspectives4
How Important Is Early Paternal Engagement? Deriving Longitudinal Measures of Fathers’ Childcare Engagement and Exploring Structural Relationships With Prior Engagement and Employment Hours4
Abdication of Responsibility for Father–Child Contact in a Group of Black South African Non-resident Father Families: A Systems Perspective4
Exploring Civil Partnership From the Perspective of Those in Mixed-Sex Relationships: Embracing a Clean Slate of Equality4
“I Don’t Want to Be Bad Mommy, but I Also Don’t Want to Be the Bad Mom”: How Mothers Story Their Experiences Navigating Social Media with Their Children4
Gender Equality in the Division of Housework and Fertility Intentions in Canada: The Moderating Effect of Employment and Education4
Refugees, Family Dynamics, and Resilience: Integrating Systemic Disruptions and Individual Coping Mechanisms4
Are You Satisfied? Examining Positive Interaction and Satisfaction in Romantic Relationships4
Women’s Attitudes Toward Intimate Partner Violence in Sindh, Pakistan: An Analysis of Multiple Indicators Cluster Survey4
Family Relationships and Young Italian Adults’ Well-Being: The Mediation Role of Mattering4
Ethnic-Racial Socialization of White Children by White Parents: A Systematic Review3
Fictive Kin Support Networks of African American and Black Caribbean Adolescents3
Association of Systemic Family Dynamics and Well-Being During the COVID-19 Outbreak: A Cross-Sectional Survey3
How Do Employers Respond to a Policy Reform of Parental Leave? A Focus on Fathers and Companies From Economy Sectors With Traditionally Lower Take-Up Rates3
Non-Standard Employment and Partnership Dissolution: A Comparison of Nonmarital Cohabitations and Marriages3
How Child and Partnership Characteristics Influence Paternal Involvement3
Marital Satisfaction and Dissatisfaction Among Ghanaians3
Social Capital, Families, Friendships, and Inter-generational Mobility3
What Happens When Family is Forced Together: Conflict, Intimacy, and Distance in Queer and Trans Youth’s Family Relations During the Pandemic3
Financial Stress, Family, Marital, and Life Satisfaction of Turkish Families During Covid-19: What Did We Learn?3
Trajectories of Paternal Contact After Parental Separation: A Latent Class Growth Analysis3
The Well-Being Implications of Having Children: Evidence From Chinese National Surveys3
“Be Mothers as if we Were not Workers, Be Workers as if we Were not Mothers”: A Qualitative Study on Parenthood’s Impact on Careers and Well-Being3
Do Older Adults Expect Reciprocity When Providing Family Support to Different Generations? Evidence From a Nationally Representative Sample of Rural and Urban China3
A Typology of Marital Quality among Javanese People3
Interpersonal Discrimination and Relationship Quality among Married Mid-Life and Older Black Adults3
Number of Siblings and Mental Health Among Adolescents: Evidence From the U.S. and China3
A Deeper Understanding of the Relationship between Family of Origin and Young Adult Cyber Dating Abuse: A Mediation Model3
Filial Piety, Intimacy, and Inter-Generational Contract: Understanding the Family Support to Rural Empty-Nest Older Parents in China3
The Experience of Work–Family Conflict: Does Being the Only Child Matter?3
Who can refuse? Attitudes About the Fertility Decisions of Wives and Husbands3
Structural and Cultural Mechanisms of Childcaring Labor in China: Neoliberalism, Confucian Ethics, and Motherhood Negotiation3
Change Trajectories and Predictors of Work-Family Conflict for Dual-Earner Parents Raising Preteens3
“Momma Knows Best”: The Relationships Between Mothers’ and Fathers’ Gender Essentialism and Their Involvement With Their Adolescents3
From Work-To-Family Conflict to Father-Infant Bonding: The Role of Marital Satisfaction3
A Qualitative Study on Incarcerated Fathers’ Self-Reflection on Childhood Family Experiences and the Intergenerational Impact on Their Current Parenting Attitudes Through Expressive Letter Writing3
Same-Sex Couples in Italy: Social, Legal and Economic Determinants to Parenthood3
“Going-With-The-Flow” or “Getting-Things-Done”: A Folk Model of Intensive Parenting Among Middle-Class Parents3
Promoting Social Support as a Protective Factor for Parental Stress and Child Behavior Problems During the COVID-19 Pandemic2
Topics of Conflict Across Family Subsystems2
Relationship Status and Well-Being in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic2
Divorce Narratives and Class Inequalities in Indonesia2
Changing Motherhood in the South African Middle-Class Context2
Consequences of Work-to-Family Conflicts for Parental Self-Efficacy—The Impact of Gender and Cultural Background in Germany2
Re-Examining the Link Between Premarital Sex and Divorce2
Age Gap Between Spouses in South and Southeast Asia2
Employment Resources and the Physical and Mental Health of Mothers of Young Children2
Exploring Psycho-Social Challenges Faced by Adolescents With Migrant Fathers: Role of Extended Family Support2
Can Bride Price “Purchase” Happiness? Evidence From China2
Child’s Gender, Parents’ Gender Ideology: Association and Contextual Variation in China2
Intergenerational Value Discordances and Affectual and Associational Solidarity Between Older Parents and Adult Children2
The Well-Being of Parents in the Year After Childbirth2
A Life Without Children: Unpacking the Relationship Between Childlessness and Loneliness in Adulthood2
Parents and Unwed Daughters as an Intergenerational Alliance? – Parental Matchmaking and China’s Single Women2
The Cyber Intimate Partner Violence: Prevalence, Context, and Relationship With In-Person Intimate Violence Victimization2
Are Parents Happier, Healthier, and More Engaged With Society than Non-parents?2
An Examination of How Spending Time Together Impacts the Quality of Relationship Between Native American Stepchildren and Their Residential Stepparent2
The Journey From Grandparent to Parent: Perceptions of Adoptive Grandparents Post-Adoption2
How Does Religion Influence Parental Support of Young Adult Children?2
Love and Duty in the Final Chapter: Stories of Home-Based Family Elder Caregiving2
“We all have Regrets; it doesn’t Mean we are Failures”: Rejecting or Regretting Motherhood2
Examining the Reciprocal Relationship Between Fathers’ Perceived Parenting Competence and Coparenting Across Early Childhood2
Charting Work Arrangements and Family Configuration over Our Working Lives2
Immigration and Intergenerational Co-Residency Among Working-Aged Adults in the United Kingdom1
Aspirations for Marriage and Parenthood Among Young Adults in the Philippines: The Intersection of Modernization and Individuality1
Transmission of and Views About Family Values in an Australian Convenience Sample: A Mixed Methods Study1
It was Gendered Before, so why not Again? US Young Adults’ Expectations for Family Labor1
Cultural Orientation, Racial-Ethnic Socialization, and Youth Adjustment Outcomes: Test of a Path Model With Asian American Parents1
Parenting Values of African Immigrants1
Marital Beliefs and Concerns of Spanish Emerging Adults1
Home, Work, and Care Economy: A Qualitative Study of Disrupted Ecology and Family Precarity During COVID-191
Social Comparison and Coparenting as Differential Predictors of Mothers’ and Fathers’ Parental Self-Efficacy1
A Qualitative Forum Analysis of Fathers’ Stressors and Support Seeking Behaviour During the COVID-19 Pandemic1
Connecting With Shosho: Assessing the Role of Grandmothers in a Low-Income Population in Nairobi, Kenya1
Parental Intervention and Sibling Violence: The Mediating Effect of Siblings’ Conflict Management1
Factors Influencing Employment Decisions Among Immigrants Caring for a Child With Special Health Care Needs1
Couple Conflict Behavior: Disentangling Associations With Relationship Dissatisfaction and Intimate Partner Violence1
Out-of-Wedlock Adolescent Motherhood and Intimate Partner Violence in Kenya1
Don’t Forget the Parents: Caregiver Coping Strategies for Daughter’s Juvenile Legal System Involvement1
Families at Psychosocial Risk. Analysis of the Relation Between Parenting Competencies and Externalizing Problems in Children and Adolescents1
Types of Family Leisure Activities in Families With Adolescents1
Quality Time as Focused Time? The Role of Focused Parental Time on the Wellbeing of Adolescents1
Modern Marriage in a Traditional Society: The Influence of College Education on Marriage in India1
Supporting Families Through Policies: Effective and Recommended Policies for Communication Technology, Digital Interventions, and Remote Work1
Gender Imbalance and the Re-Entry of Married Women Into the Labor Market in Urban China: A Marriage Market Perspective1
Foundations and Paradigms: Moral Roots of Beliefs and Disagreement About Marriage1
Does More Egalitarian Ideology Foster More Egalitarian Household Work Division? Marriage, Work, and Family Life in Japan1
Norwegian Biological Parents and Stepparents’ Attitudes Towards Family Obligations in Middle and Old Age1
Doing Housework in Context: Dyadic Analyses of the Division of Domestic Labor in Contemporary Couples1
Development of the Culturally Affirming and Responsive Experiences (CARE) Measure: Observing Responsiveness and Ethnic-Racial Cultural Socialization in Mother–Child Interactions1
Life Adjustment of Divorced Women and Influence on Parent–Child Relationships in Hong Kong1
Grandparents’ Retirement and Mother’s Employment Quality: The Mediating Role of Intergenerational Caregiving1
Do Gender and Relationship Length Jointly Moderate the Effects of Marital Dysfunctional Beliefs and Expectations on Marital Commitment Among Rwandan Married Couples?1
Adolescent Emotional Competence Mediates Relations Between Parental Emotional Vulnerability During Conversations and Adolescent Depressive Symptoms1
Socioeconomic Disadvantage as a Risk Factor for Attachment Insecurity: The Moderating Role of Gender1
Work–Family Conflict and Emotional Exhaustion During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Argentina: The Moderating Role of Personal, Family, and Job Resources1
Teaching Wife’s Language to the Children of International Marriage Couples in South Korea1
Investigation of the Mediating Role of Sense of Coherence Between Family Harmony and Well-Being Among High School Students in Turkey1
Employed Mothers’ Justifications for Using Child Home Care Allowance in Finland1
Parenting Concerns During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Results From a Canadian Crowdsourced Sample1
“Sometimes, During Deployment, It Seems Like We Won’t Make It”: U.S. Military Deployment Transition Issues as a Precursor to Couples’ Reintegration Issues1
Taking Care of Elderly Parents or Children: How Are They Related to the Decision to Hire Foreign Domestic Helpers?1
The Revised Parent-Adolescent Conflict Issues Checklist: Development, Reliability, and Validity1
Families With Early History of Parental Abuse and Neglect: Midlife Adult Children’s Relationships With Their Parents During COVID-191
Parents’ Wisdom and Adolescents’ Cognitive, Social, and Emotional Developmental Qualities1
Factor Structure and Predictors of Resilience Among Custodial Grandparents1
Psychosocial Consequences of Disclosing Misattributed Paternity: A Narrative Review1
The Effects of a Fatherhood Intervention on the Co-parenting Behaviors of Hispanic and Non-Hispanic Black Fathers1
Dyadic Effects of Stress on Family Life Satisfaction in Mothers and Adolescents: Sense of Hope as Mediator1
Perceived Discipline Consistency in Parent–Child Relationships During Emerging Adulthood1
Young Black Fathers’ Perceptions of Fatherhood: A Family Systems Account1
Parents’ Work–Family Conflict and Children’s Emotional Well-Being: The Mediating Role of Parenting Behaviors1
Patterns in Receiving Informal Help With Childcare Among U.S. Parents During the COVID-19 Pandemic1
Mixed Marriages in the Polish Catholic Migrant Community: An Analysis from the 2004 EU Enlargement to Brexit1
The Long Arm of Stress and Strength: Poverty, Religious Attendance, and Black Mothers’ Parent–Child Relationships Over Time1
Navigating Delayed Marriage: A Grounded Theory Study of the Lived Experiences and Decision-Making Processes of Young Adults1
Family Structure and Parental Involvement: Examining the Role of Grandparents in China1
Contemporary Partner Preferences in Mate Selection: An Expanded List of Characteristics and the Addition of Constraints1
Social Spheres of Protection and Threat: The Experiences of Black Men Married to White Women1
Work and Family Balance in Chilean Young People’s Life Plans1
Sandwiched Mothers: Parent Involvement and Mother’s Subjective Well-Being1
Remarriage in Thailand: A Study of Emerging Trends, Correlates, and Implications for Women's Well-Being1
The Effect of Unilateral Divorce Laws on Marriage Outcomes1
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