Journal of Family Issues

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Family Issues 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Beyond the Economic-Need Hypothesis: A Life-Course Explanation of Women’s Extended Family Living Arrangements in Chile39
The Cost of “A Better Life”: Children Left Behind—Beyond Ambiguous Loss34
Parenting Immigrants: Understanding How Family Relationships Impact the Wellbeing of Older Chinese Immigrants Living on the Gold Coast, Australia27
Attitudes Toward Heterosexual and Lesbian Stepmothers: An Experimental Test in the Italian Context26
Experiences of Autonomy in Marriage and Divorce Within the Chinese Traditional System21
Is it an Impossible Task? Exploring the Lived Experiences of Christian Parents With Young Children in the UK19
Feminist Mothering and Primary Prevention of Gendered Violence: Insights From Australian Mothers Raising Sons18
The Impact of Physical Health, Race, and Financial Status on Relational Satisfaction17
Weathering the Storm: Longitudinal Evidence on Women’s Changing Family Relationships During COVID-1917
The Role of Adverse Childhood Experiences in the Trajectories to Adulthood of Chinese Youth: A Retrospective Study16
The Remarriage Belief Inventory: A Validation Study in the Remarried Portuguese Population16
Chinese Lesbian and Gay Adults’ Self-Reported Experiences of Negative Treatment and Violence From Family of Origin: Evidence From a Larger-Scale Study in China15
Parents’ Perceptions of Children’s Behavioral Difficulties and the Parent–Child Interaction During the COVID-19 Lockdown15
Mental Health Across the Life Course for Men and Women in Married, Cohabiting, and Living Apart Together Relationships15
Infidelity and Anger within Incarcerated Couples: A Brief Report15
Grandparenting and Well-Being of the Elderly in China15
Children’s Contact With Fathers Who Never Co-Resided With Them and Father–Child Relationship Quality at age 915
Will Adults’ Happiness be Affected by Childhood Parental Divorce? Evidence From China13
Does Family Decision-Making Power Improve Women’s Happiness?13
Measurement Invariance in the Alabama Parenting Questionnaire: Implications for Culturally Inclusive Parenting Research13
Imbalanced Sex Ratios and Marital Transitions in Mexico12
How Parents Play: Play Style as a Function of Gender of Parent, Gender of Child, and Play Context12
Parents’ Perceptions of Education and Culture as a Context of Parental Stress: A Study of Parents of Preschool Children in Hong Kong12
Caregivers’ Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Their Children’s Behavior12
Doing Gender with Class: Gender Division of Unpaid Work in Russian Middle-Class Dual Earner Heterosexual Households11
Parental Alienating Behaviours Experienced by Alienated Grandparents11
Navigating Parenthood in the Pandemic: Revealing the Trade-offs of Childcare Choices Through Conjoint Analysis11
Child–Parent Relationships and Older Adults’ Health: A Cross-Cultural Comparison Between China and the United States11
Parent–Child Leisure and Parent Affect: The Role of Family Structure11
Mothers and Others: How Collective Strategies Reproduce Social Norms Around Motherhood11
Sexual Identity in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer or Questioning Emerging Adults: The Role of Parental Rejection, and Sexuality Specific Family Support11
Coparenting Quality During COVID-19: Exploring Gender Differences Using a Mixed Methods Approach10
Family Communication and Psychological Distress in the Era of COVID-19 Pandemic: Mediating Role of Coping10
Preliminary Analysis of the Past and Planned Investments Measure in Turkish Dual-Career Married Individuals10
Sibling Social Comparison in Mid- to Later Life: Links with Well-Being and Relationship Quality10
“Mature Enough to Handle it?”: Gendered Parental Interventions in and Adolescents’ Reactions to Technology Use During the Pandemic10
The Trajectory of Subjective Well-Being: A Partial Explanation of the Marriage Advantage10
The Inverse Association Between Number of Siblings and Divorce: New Evidence From China and Europe9
Who You Live With Matters: Living Arrangements and Life Expectancy With the Evidence From Eighteen-Year Follow-Up Data9
Socio-economic Correlates of Marital Status and Marriage Timing Among Adult Men in Nigeria9
Academia and Motherhood: A Narrative Inquiry of Ontario Academic Mothers’ Experiences in University Graduate Programs9
Student Parents or Parent Students in Lockdown Pandemic? A Third Space approach9
Early Life Family Care for and With Migrants: The Development of a Transcultural Transition Mentoring Competence Profile9
Foster Caregiver Experiences: Implications for Retention and Satisfaction9
A Hybrid Model for the Intergenerational Relationship Between Maternal Poverty and Their Young Adult Child’s Self-Esteem9
Portraits of Life After Loss: Understanding Parental Loss Within A Social Context9
“I didn’t Even Realize I Agreed to Meet the Child so Rarely.” Negotiations and Parental Desires in LGBTQ Family Forming Processes9
Attitudes and Feelings Among Married Mothers and Single Mothers by Choice During the Covid-19 Crisis9
Actual and Perceived Parental Knowledge and Child Delinquency: Does the Sex of the Parent, the Sex of the Child, and the Child’s Age Make a Difference?8
Gendered Housework Among Adolescents in India8
Familial Predictors of Alcohol and Drug Use-Related Problems Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults8
“She Took Care of Us and She Went Through a Lot”: Emotional Availability, Emotional Support, and Millennials’ Gendered Understandings of Parenting8
The Racialization of Latino Families8
‘It’s Nothing Serious I Suppose’ Family Help-Seeking for Adolescent Social Anxiety8
Symptoms of Anxiety in Mothers During the COVID-19 Lockdown: A Structural Equation Model Approach8
Perspectives on Sexual Socialization from a Sample of Black Heterosexual College Women8
Domains of Ongoing Communication Between Former Spouses: Associations With Parenting Stress and Children’s Post-Divorce Well-Being8
“I Would Like to, But My World Wouldn’t End If I Didn’t”: Marital Aspirations Among Sexual Minority Young Adults8
Ready for Parenthood? On Intensive Parenting Ideals and Fertility7
Loneliness Among Chinese Older Adults: The Role of Grandparenthood and Grandparental Childcare by Gender7
Exploring the Psychosocial Experiences of Within the Family Adoptees: An initiative for Mental Well-Being7
Racial Disparity in Parenting Practice Among Parents With Young Children7
International Displacement and Family Stress in Latin America7
Intimate Partner Violence among Korean Immigrant Women in the United States: Intersectionality of Gender Norms, Immigration, and Socioeconomic Status7
Quality and Quantity of Grandparent Contact: Associations with Late Adolescents’ Psychological Adjustment7
How to Find Mr/Miss Right? The Mechanism of Search Among Online Daters in Shanghai7
Interparental Conflict Across the Early Parenting Period: Evidence From Fathers Participating in an Australian Population-Based Study7
Parents’ Sleep Across Weekdays and Weekends: The Influence of Work, Housework, and Childcare Time7
‘We Call It the Square Au Pair’. Exploring Working Mothers’ Experiences of Using Digital Devices as ‘Babysitters’7
Trends in the Prevalence of Childfree Women in the Philippines, 1993–20227
“Once You Become a Parent, You are a Parent Forever”: An Examination of Memorable Messages About Having Children and Becoming a Parent7
Physical Activity Among Parents of Children With Disabilities: A Systematic Review7
Parents’ Family Coping Strategies during the Pandemic: Effects on Parent and Child Well-Being7
Joint Utility or Sub-optimal Outcomes? Household Income Development of Same-Sex and Different-Sex Couples Transitioning to Parenthood in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden6
Parental Stress Provoked by Short-Term School Closures During the Second COVID-19 Lockdown6
Motherhood and Childfree Choice: Accounts of Indian Childfree Women6
Life Course Statuses and Sibling Relationship Quality during Emerging Adulthood6
Lower-Income Nonresident Fathers’ Self-Perceptions About Their Parenting Quality and Relationships With Children6
Family Dynamics in Cross-National Families With Young Children in Singapore6
Educational Challenges of School-Age Children in Skipped Generation Households in Nigeria6
Women Caregivers Under the Spanish Autonomy and Dependence System: A New Social Underclass?6
Macro-Level Correlates of Early Marriage in Asia6
Differences in Life Satisfaction and Emotions by Romantic Coupling and Sexual Orientation6
Men’s Marriage Trends in Asia: Changes and Continuities6
Supporting Children and Kinship Caregivers in the Context of Substance Use Disorder: Perspectives of Key Professionals6
Exploring Linkages Between Mother–Child and Sibling Relationship Quality and Prosocial Behavior Between School-Aged and Adolescent Siblings6
The Heterogeneous Effect of Parental Investment on Old-Age Support: Only Children As the Main Caregivers in China6
Vulnerability of Poverty between Male and Female Headed Household in Tanzania6
Single Motherhood and Stress in a Kenyan Slum: The Importance of Paternal and Kin Support6
Social Support and Quality of Life Among People Living With HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in Ghana5
Are Intensive Parenting Attitudes Internationally Generalizable? The Case of Sweden5
Abdication of Responsibility for Father–Child Contact in a Group of Black South African Non-resident Father Families: A Systems Perspective5
Women’s Attitudes Toward Intimate Partner Violence in Sindh, Pakistan: An Analysis of Multiple Indicators Cluster Survey5
A Sense of Connectedness in Reproductive Donation. Contrasting Policy With Donor and Donor Kin Lived Experience5
Search and Communication About Origins in Internationally Adopted Young Adults in Spain: A Phenomenological Perspective5
The Long-Term Impact of Family Experiences in Adolescence on Mother–Child Relationships in Early Adulthood5
Are You Satisfied? Examining Positive Interaction and Satisfaction in Romantic Relationships5
How Important Is Early Paternal Engagement? Deriving Longitudinal Measures of Fathers’ Childcare Engagement and Exploring Structural Relationships With Prior Engagement and Employment Hours5
Relationship Beliefs and Communication Skills in Turkish Married Individuals: Examining the Mediating Role of Partner Accommodation Behavior and Emotional Dependency5
The Double-Edged Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Chinese Family Relationships5
The Influence of Work–Family Conflict on Parental Burnout in China: Moderating Effect of Spousal Support and its Gender Differences5
Marital Beliefs and Decisions Among Young Chinese Medical Workers5
Coparenting, Couple Conflict, Social Support, and Relationship Quality: A Dyadic Exploration of Couples From LIEM Backgrounds5
COVID-19 and Parental Burnout: Parents Locked Down but Not More Exhausted5
Longitudinal Psychological Family Studies in Austria: A Scoping Review5
Effects of Intimate Partner Violence Prevention Programming on Social Support, Coparenting, and Parenting Among Teen Parents: A Pilot Study5
“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 Children5
‘It’s a Man’s Job’: Doing Gender and Male Gatekeeping in the Division of Household Labor5
Exploring Civil Partnership From the Perspective of Those in Mixed-Sex Relationships: Embracing a Clean Slate of Equality5
Families in Multi-Problem Situations in India: Exploration From the Fifth Round of the National Family Health Survey5
How Does Law Prescribe Circulation of Children? Understanding Different Kinds of Movement Within the Adoption Law in India5
The Impact of Paternity Leave Compared to Unemployment on Child Care and Housework Distribution in Spain5
Parental Mediation of Cell Phone Use and Adolescent Autonomy5
Grandchild Caring and Late-Life Depression: A Comparative Longitudinal Study in China and Europe4
Blessing or Burden: Transitions Into Eldercare and Caregiver Mental Health4
Bullying Victimization Among Ukrainian College Students: The Role of Family Communication and Satisfaction, Corporal Punishment and Child Abuse4
Coupling with COVID: The Role of Dyadic Coping in Relationship Satisfaction and Psychological Distress during the COVID-19 Pandemic4
Financial Stress, Family, Marital, and Life Satisfaction of Turkish Families During Covid-19: What Did We Learn?4
Remarriage After Divorce and Health in Later Life: Findings From CHARLS in China4
Parent/Caregiver Narratives of Challenges Related to Raising Transgender and/or Nonbinary Youth4
‘I Have to be the Mum and Dad for 4 Weeks Straight’. Exploring the Experiences and Support Needs of Australian Parents and Partners Engaged in Fly-In/Fly-Out Work Practices4
Filial Piety, Intimacy, and Inter-Generational Contract: Understanding the Family Support to Rural Empty-Nest Older Parents in China4
Children’s Experiences of Lockdown and Social Distancing in the Covid-19 Pandemic4
Siblinghood Amongst Older Adults: What Being a Sibling or Having Siblings Means4
A Mixed Methods Study of Relationship Satisfaction in Parents of Children With Down Syndrome4
The Effects of Family Income and Parents’ Educational Status on Child Health Status: Examining the Mediation Effects of Material Deprivation and Parents’ Health4
Difficulties Imposed on the Parent–Child Relationship Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic4
A Deeper Understanding of the Relationship between Family of Origin and Young Adult Cyber Dating Abuse: A Mediation Model4
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 Rates4
What Happens When Family is Forced Together: Conflict, Intimacy, and Distance in Queer and Trans Youth’s Family Relations During the Pandemic4
Marital Satisfaction and Dissatisfaction Among Ghanaians4
“Going-With-The-Flow” or “Getting-Things-Done”: A Folk Model of Intensive Parenting Among Middle-Class Parents4
Marital Quality as a Mechanism Linking Childhood Abuse to Mental Health4
Coping With Parental Pressure to Get Married: Perspectives From Chinese “Leftover Women”4
Locking Down Gender Roles? A Time-Use Perspective on Gender Division of Household Labour during the COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown in Belgium4
Patterns of Paternal Involvement of Korean Fathers: A Person-Centered Approach4
Parenting Desire Among Childless Lesbian and Gay Individuals in China: The Influence of Traditional Family Values, Minority Stress, and Parenting Motivation4
Singleness and the Pandemic Dating Recession4
Home, but Left Alone: Time at Home and Child Abuse and Neglect During COVID-194
Facilitators and Barriers of Mother Engagement in a Home-based Parenting Program Following Concerns of Child Maltreatment4
“Those Are Typical Tell-Tale Signs of a Lesbian”: LGBQ Young Peoples’ Perceptions of Parental Messaging Surrounding Gender Non-Conforming Behavior4
Number of Siblings and Mental Health Among Adolescents: Evidence From the U.S. and China4
Gender Equality in the Division of Housework and Fertility Intentions in Canada: The Moderating Effect of Employment and Education4
Help-Seeking Behaviors of Male Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence in Kenya4
Patterns of Stepsibling Relationship Development4
Family Relationships and Young Italian Adults’ Well-Being: The Mediation Role of Mattering4
Investigating the Psychometric Properties of the Arabic Version of the Family Adaptability and Cohesion Evaluation Scale IV (FACES IV) in Saudi Arabia3
Divorce Narratives and Class Inequalities in Indonesia3
How Does Religion Influence Parental Support of Young Adult Children?3
Employment Resources and the Physical and Mental Health of Mothers of Young Children3
Family Strength During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Indonesia3
Changing Motherhood in the South African Middle-Class Context3
Re-Examining the Link Between Premarital Sex and Divorce3
Toward a Better Understanding of the Associations Among Different Measures of Father Involvement and Parenting Alliance3
To Disclose or Conceal? Workplace Disability and Eldercare-Related Disclosure Decision-Making Strategies3
“We all have Regrets; it doesn’t Mean we are Failures”: Rejecting or Regretting Motherhood3
Trajectories of Paternal Contact After Parental Separation: A Latent Class Growth Analysis3
Promoting Social Support as a Protective Factor for Parental Stress and Child Behavior Problems During the COVID-19 Pandemic3
The Role of Family Communication in the Family Resilience of Deaf Children’s Families3
From Work-To-Family Conflict to Father-Infant Bonding: The Role of Marital Satisfaction3
All in the (Definition of) Family: Transnational Parent–Child Relationships, Rights to Family Life, and Canadian Immigration Law3
Parenting During a Pandemic: Predictors of Parental Burnout3
Young Black Fathers’ Perceptions of Fatherhood: A Family Systems Account3
Foster Caregivers’ Parenting Stress as a Moderator of Change in Coparenting Following Relationship Education3
Intergenerational Value Discordances and Affectual and Associational Solidarity Between Older Parents and Adult Children3
Association of Systemic Family Dynamics and Well-Being During the COVID-19 Outbreak: A Cross-Sectional Survey3
Parents and Unwed Daughters as an Intergenerational Alliance? – Parental Matchmaking and China’s Single Women3
The Well-Being of Parents in the Year After Childbirth3
The Cyber Intimate Partner Violence: Prevalence, Context, and Relationship With In-Person Intimate Violence Victimization3
Navigating the Gap: Children’s Experiences of Home and School Life Following Maternal Death3
Gender Role Ideology, Work–Family Conflict, Family–Work Conflict, and Marital Satisfaction Among Korean Dual-Earner Couples3
Consequences of Work-to-Family Conflicts for Parental Self-Efficacy—The Impact of Gender and Cultural Background in Germany3
Non-Standard Employment and Partnership Dissolution: A Comparison of Nonmarital Cohabitations and Marriages3
Bonding Family Social Capital and Agency Among Native-Born and Immigrant College Women With Low Parental Financial Support3
A Typology of Marital Quality among Javanese People3
Who can refuse? Attitudes About the Fertility Decisions of Wives and Husbands3
Korean Immigrant Fathers’ Perceptions and Attitudes Toward Their Parenting Involvement3
Could Personality and Parental Relations Be a Risk Factor for Self-Injurious Behavior?3
Topics of Conflict Across Family Subsystems3
Mothers’ Post-separation Experiences of Male Partner Abuse: An Exploratory Study3
Charting Work Arrangements and Family Configuration over Our Working Lives3
Relationship Status and Well-Being in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic3
Title: New Parents’ Idealistic Expectations of Parenthood: The Impact of Preconceived Ideas3
Relationship Between Mobile Penetration Rate and Divorce Rate in Iran During 1995–2019: A Time-Series Study3
The Experience of Work–Family Conflict: Does Being the Only Child Matter?3
A Study on Moderating Role of Family-Friendly Policies in Work–Life Balance3
Interpersonal Discrimination and Relationship Quality among Married Mid-Life and Older Black Adults3
Age Gap Between Spouses in South and Southeast Asia3
Ethnic-Racial Socialization of White Children by White Parents: A Systematic Review3
From First-Union Separation to Stepfamily in Italian Context: Building a Stepcouple Identity2
Taking Care of Elderly Parents or Children: How Are They Related to the Decision to Hire Foreign Domestic Helpers?2
Connecting With Shosho: Assessing the Role of Grandmothers in a Low-Income Population in Nairobi, Kenya2
The Revised Parent-Adolescent Conflict Issues Checklist: Development, Reliability, and Validity2
Consistency and Transformation of Filial Responsibility Attitudes in China: Evidence from Panel Study of Family Dynamics of 2004 and 20172
Norwegian Biological Parents and Stepparents’ Attitudes Towards Family Obligations in Middle and Old Age2
Work-to-Family Conflict and Children’s Problems with School, Friends, and Health: Household Economic Conditions and Couple Relationship Quality as Contingencies2
Cultural Orientation, Racial-Ethnic Socialization, and Youth Adjustment Outcomes: Test of a Path Model With Asian American Parents2
Adverse Childhood Experiences, Intimate Partner Violence, and Communication Quality in a College-Aged Sample2
Families in Poverty and Noncitizenship: An Intersectional Perspective on Economic Exclusion2
Changes in Perceived Fairness of Division of Household Labor Across Parenthood Transitions: Whose Relationship Satisfaction Is Impacted?2
“When You Come Together and Do Everything, It’ll be Better for Everybody”: Exploring Gender Relations Among Two Southeastern Native American Tribes2
Parents’ Wisdom and Adolescents’ Cognitive, Social, and Emotional Developmental Qualities2
Relationship Between Family Functioning, Parents’ Psychosocial Factors, and Children’s Well-Being2
Consensus on Constraints in Marital Satisfaction Among Married People in African Context2
Out-of-Wedlock Adolescent Motherhood and Intimate Partner Violence in Kenya2
Transmission of and Views About Family Values in an Australian Convenience Sample: A Mixed Methods Study2
Work–Family Conflict and Emotional Exhaustion During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Argentina: The Moderating Role of Personal, Family, and Job Resources2
Marital Beliefs and Concerns of Spanish Emerging Adults2
Psychosocial Consequences of Disclosing Misattributed Paternity: A Narrative Review2
Grandparents’ Retirement and Mother’s Employment Quality: The Mediating Role of Intergenerational Caregiving2
Ten Key Findings on Targeted Parents’ Experiences: Towards a Broader Definition of Parental Alienation2
Network Financial Transfers and Psychological Distress Among Unmarried Mothers2
Sources of Intergenerational Conflict in Chinese Immigrant Families in the United States2
Quality Time as Focused Time? The Role of Focused Parental Time on the Wellbeing of Adolescents2
Emotion Work and Gender Inequality in Transnational Family Life2
Remarriage in Thailand: A Study of Emerging Trends, Correlates, and Implications for Women's Well-Being2
The Role of Dyadic Coping for the Individual and Relational Well-Being of Couples During the Transition to Parenthood2
Families at Psychosocial Risk. Analysis of the Relation Between Parenting Competencies and Externalizing Problems in Children and Adolescents2
Immigration and Intergenerational Co-Residency Among Working-Aged Adults in the United Kingdom2
Employed Mothers’ Justifications for Using Child Home Care Allowance in Finland2
The Struggle to Balance Work and Family Life During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Insights Based on the Situations of Working Women in Delhi2
“Sometimes, During Deployment, It Seems Like We Won’t Make It”: U.S. Military Deployment Transition Issues as a Precursor to Couples’ Reintegration Issues2
Development of the Culturally Affirming and Responsive Experiences (CARE) Measure: Observing Responsiveness and Ethnic-Racial Cultural Socialization in Mother–Child Interactions2
Patterns and Predictors of Taiwanese Adult Children’s Intergenerational Exchanges Before and After Economic Stagnation2
Postdivorce Coparenting Patterns and Relations With Adolescent Adjustment2
Work and Family Balance in Chilean Young People’s Life Plans2
Partner–Child Relationship Satisfaction and Marital Satisfaction: Do Impressions Spill Over?2
Modern Marriage in a Traditional Society: The Influence of College Education on Marriage in India2
Patterns in Receiving Informal Help With Childcare Among U.S. Parents During the COVID-19 Pandemic2
Young Carers and Parentification–Between Support and Responsibility: Involving the Child in the Functioning of the Family2
COVID-19 and Family Distancing Efforts: Contextual Demographic and Family Conflict Correlates2
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