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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Parental Recollections of Bullying46
The Impact of Physical Health, Race, and Financial Status on Relational Satisfaction30
The Role of Adverse Childhood Experiences in the Trajectories to Adulthood of Chinese Youth: A Retrospective Study26
Is it an Impossible Task? Exploring the Lived Experiences of Christian Parents With Young Children in the UK22
Mental Health Across the Life Course for Men and Women in Married, Cohabiting, and Living Apart Together Relationships21
Parenting Immigrants: Understanding How Family Relationships Impact the Wellbeing of Older Chinese Immigrants Living on the Gold Coast, Australia18
The Remarriage Belief Inventory: A Validation Study in the Remarried Portuguese Population17
Attitudes Toward Heterosexual and Lesbian Stepmothers: An Experimental Test in the Italian Context17
Weathering the Storm: Longitudinal Evidence on Women’s Changing Family Relationships During COVID-1916
Advice for New Stepparents From the Perspective of Stepchildren Who Experienced Stepfamily Formation During Adolescence16
Feminist Mothering and Primary Prevention of Gendered Violence: Insights From Australian Mothers Raising Sons15
Experiences of Autonomy in Marriage and Divorce Within the Chinese Traditional System13
Educational Assortative Mating and Its Impact on Marital Quality in China13
Will Adults’ Happiness be Affected by Childhood Parental Divorce? Evidence From China12
Chinese Lesbian and Gay Adults’ Self-Reported Experiences of Negative Treatment and Violence From Family of Origin: Evidence From a Larger-Scale Study in China12
Caregivers’ Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Their Children’s Behavior11
Children’s Contact With Fathers Who Never Co-Resided With Them and Father–Child Relationship Quality at age 910
How Parents Play: Play Style as a Function of Gender of Parent, Gender of Child, and Play Context10
Child–Parent Relationships and Older Adults’ Health: A Cross-Cultural Comparison Between China and the United States9
Parents’ Perceptions of Education and Culture as a Context of Parental Stress: A Study of Parents of Preschool Children in Hong Kong9
It’s the Thought that Counts: Pregnancy Intention and Relationship Stressors Across SES9
Parents’ Perceptions of Children’s Behavioral Difficulties and the Parent–Child Interaction During the COVID-19 Lockdown9
Navigating Parenthood in the Pandemic: Revealing the Trade-offs of Childcare Choices Through Conjoint Analysis9
Mothers and Others: How Collective Strategies Reproduce Social Norms Around Motherhood9
Coparenting Quality During COVID-19: Exploring Gender Differences Using a Mixed Methods Approach9
Imbalanced Sex Ratios and Marital Transitions in Mexico9
Infidelity and Anger within Incarcerated Couples: A Brief Report9
Grandparenting and Well-Being of the Elderly in China9
“Mature Enough to Handle it?”: Gendered Parental Interventions in and Adolescents’ Reactions to Technology Use During the Pandemic8
Early Life Family Care for and With Migrants: The Development of a Transcultural Transition Mentoring Competence Profile8
Academia and Motherhood: A Narrative Inquiry of Ontario Academic Mothers’ Experiences in University Graduate Programs8
Parental Alienating Behaviours Experienced by Alienated Grandparents8
Preliminary Analysis of the Past and Planned Investments Measure in Turkish Dual-Career Married Individuals8
“I didn’t Even Realize I Agreed to Meet the Child so Rarely.” Negotiations and Parental Desires in LGBTQ Family Forming Processes8
When Working From Home Fails to Support Work–Life Balance: The Role of Childcare- and Work-Related Demands8
Socio-economic Correlates of Marital Status and Marriage Timing Among Adult Men in Nigeria8
Who You Live With Matters: Living Arrangements and Life Expectancy With the Evidence From Eighteen-Year Follow-Up Data7
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
The Inverse Association Between Number of Siblings and Divorce: New Evidence From China and Europe7
Student Parents or Parent Students in Lockdown Pandemic? A Third Space approach7
Foster Caregiver Experiences: Implications for Retention and Satisfaction7
Father Involvement in Asian Families: A Systematic Literature Review7
A Hybrid Model for the Intergenerational Relationship Between Maternal Poverty and Their Young Adult Child’s Self-Esteem7
Perspectives on Sexual Socialization from a Sample of Black Heterosexual College Women7
Understanding Military Motherhood: How the Armed Forces’ Childcare and Family Leave Policies Impact Servicewomen with Young Children7
Women Caregivers Under the Spanish Autonomy and Dependence System: A New Social Underclass?6
Trends in the Prevalence of Childfree Women in the Philippines, 1993–20226
The Racialization of Latino Families6
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?6
How to Find Mr/Miss Right? The Mechanism of Search Among Online Daters in Shanghai6
Exploring Linkages Between Mother–Child and Sibling Relationship Quality and Prosocial Behavior Between School-Aged and Adolescent Siblings6
Parents’ Family Coping Strategies during the Pandemic: Effects on Parent and Child Well-Being6
Ready for Parenthood? On Intensive Parenting Ideals and Fertility6
‘We Call It the Square Au Pair’. Exploring Working Mothers’ Experiences of Using Digital Devices as ‘Babysitters’6
“I Would Like to, But My World Wouldn’t End If I Didn’t”: Marital Aspirations Among Sexual Minority Young Adults6
International Displacement and Family Stress in Latin America6
“Once You Become a Parent, You are a Parent Forever”: An Examination of Memorable Messages About Having Children and Becoming a Parent6
Symptoms of Anxiety in Mothers During the COVID-19 Lockdown: A Structural Equation Model Approach6
Familial Predictors of Alcohol and Drug Use-Related Problems Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults6
‘It’s Nothing Serious I Suppose’ Family Help-Seeking for Adolescent Social Anxiety6
Coparenting, Couple Conflict, Social Support, and Relationship Quality: A Dyadic Exploration of Couples From LIEM Backgrounds5
Quality and Quantity of Grandparent Contact: Associations with Late Adolescents’ Psychological Adjustment5
Socialization Past and Present: Intergenerational Transmission of Parenting Behaviors in Multispecies Families5
A Sense of Connectedness in Reproductive Donation. Contrasting Policy With Donor and Donor Kin Lived Experience5
Family Dynamics in Cross-National Families With Young Children in Singapore5
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
Parental Mediation of Cell Phone Use and Adolescent Autonomy5
Differences in Life Satisfaction and Emotions by Romantic Coupling and Sexual Orientation5
The Long-Term Impact of Family Experiences in Adolescence on Mother–Child Relationships in Early Adulthood5
Exploring the Psychosocial Experiences of Within the Family Adoptees: An initiative for Mental Well-Being5
Racial Disparity in Parenting Practice Among Parents With Young 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
Women’s Attitudes Toward Intimate Partner Violence in Sindh, Pakistan: An Analysis of Multiple Indicators Cluster Survey5
Are You Satisfied? Examining Positive Interaction and Satisfaction in Romantic Relationships5
The Influence of Work–Family Conflict on Parental Burnout in China: Moderating Effect of Spousal Support and its Gender Differences5
The Heterogeneous Effect of Parental Investment on Old-Age Support: Only Children As the Main Caregivers in China5
Macro-Level Correlates of Early Marriage in Asia5
Single Motherhood and Stress in a Kenyan Slum: The Importance of Paternal and Kin Support5
Motherhood and Childfree Choice: Accounts of Indian Childfree Women5
Lower-Income Nonresident Fathers’ Self-Perceptions About Their Parenting Quality and Relationships With Children5
How Nonreligious Parents Approach the (Non)Religious Socialization of Their Children5
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
Marital Beliefs and Decisions Among Young Chinese Medical Workers5
Parents’ Experiences in the Coming Out Process of LGB Individuals: A Focus on Mothers’ Journeys5
Men’s Marriage Trends in Asia: Changes and Continuities5
Are Intensive Parenting Attitudes Internationally Generalizable? The Case of Sweden4
Siblinghood Amongst Older Adults: What Being a Sibling or Having Siblings Means4
Relationship Beliefs and Communication Skills in Turkish Married Individuals: Examining the Mediating Role of Partner Accommodation Behavior and Emotional Dependency4
‘It’s a Man’s Job’: Doing Gender and Male Gatekeeping in the Division of Household Labor4
“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
Locking Down Gender Roles? A Time-Use Perspective on Gender Division of Household Labour during the COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown in Belgium4
Fatherlessness: Black Jamaican Mothers’ Perspectives4
Help-Seeking Behaviors of Male Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence in Kenya4
Filial Piety, Intimacy, and Inter-Generational Contract: Understanding the Family Support to Rural Empty-Nest Older Parents in China4
Coping With Parental Pressure to Get Married: Perspectives From Chinese “Leftover Women”4
Children’s Experiences of Lockdown and Social Distancing in the Covid-19 Pandemic4
Abdication of Responsibility for Father–Child Contact in a Group of Black South African Non-resident Father Families: A Systems Perspective4
How Important Is Early Paternal Engagement? Deriving Longitudinal Measures of Fathers’ Childcare Engagement and Exploring Structural Relationships With Prior Engagement and Employment Hours4
Exploring Civil Partnership From the Perspective of Those in Mixed-Sex Relationships: Embracing a Clean Slate of Equality4
Gender Equality in the Division of Housework and Fertility Intentions in Canada: The Moderating Effect of Employment and Education4
Social Capital, Families, Friendships, and Inter-generational Mobility4
“Going-With-The-Flow” or “Getting-Things-Done”: A Folk Model of Intensive Parenting Among Middle-Class Parents4
Family Relationships and Young Italian Adults’ Well-Being: The Mediation Role of Mattering4
The Double-Edged Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Chinese Family Relationships4
The Impact of Paternity Leave Compared to Unemployment on Child Care and Housework Distribution in Spain4
Grandchild Caring and Late-Life Depression: A Comparative Longitudinal Study in China and Europe4
A Mixed Methods Study of Relationship Satisfaction in Parents of Children With Down Syndrome4
Bullying Victimization Among Ukrainian College Students: The Role of Family Communication and Satisfaction, Corporal Punishment and Child Abuse4
Singleness and the Pandemic Dating Recession4
Marital Quality as a Mechanism Linking Childhood Abuse to Mental Health4
Non-Standard Employment and Partnership Dissolution: A Comparison of Nonmarital Cohabitations and Marriages3
From Work-To-Family Conflict to Father-Infant Bonding: The Role of Marital Satisfaction3
A Deeper Understanding of the Relationship between Family of Origin and Young Adult Cyber Dating Abuse: A Mediation Model3
Difficulties Imposed on the Parent–Child Relationship Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic3
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
What Happens When Family is Forced Together: Conflict, Intimacy, and Distance in Queer and Trans Youth’s Family Relations During the Pandemic3
All in the (Definition of) Family: Transnational Parent–Child Relationships, Rights to Family Life, and Canadian Immigration Law3
Charting Work Arrangements and Family Configuration over Our Working Lives3
Change Trajectories and Predictors of Work-Family Conflict for Dual-Earner Parents Raising Preteens3
A Typology of Marital Quality among Javanese People3
Ethnic-Racial Socialization of White Children by White Parents: A Systematic Review3
Fictive Kin Support Networks of African American and Black Caribbean Adolescents3
The Experience of Work–Family Conflict: Does Being the Only Child Matter?3
Financial Stress, Family, Marital, and Life Satisfaction of Turkish Families During Covid-19: What Did We Learn?3
Coupling with COVID: The Role of Dyadic Coping in Relationship Satisfaction and Psychological Distress during the COVID-19 Pandemic3
‘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 Practices3
“Momma Knows Best”: The Relationships Between Mothers’ and Fathers’ Gender Essentialism and Their Involvement With Their Adolescents3
Age Gap Between Spouses in South and Southeast Asia3
Topics of Conflict Across Family Subsystems3
Promoting Social Support as a Protective Factor for Parental Stress and Child Behavior Problems During the COVID-19 Pandemic3
Association of Systemic Family Dynamics and Well-Being During the COVID-19 Outbreak: A Cross-Sectional Survey3
Employment Resources and the Physical and Mental Health of Mothers of Young Children3
Interpersonal Discrimination and Relationship Quality among Married Mid-Life and Older Black Adults3
Facilitators and Barriers of Mother Engagement in a Home-based Parenting Program Following Concerns of Child Maltreatment3
Number of Siblings and Mental Health Among Adolescents: Evidence From the U.S. and China3
Trajectories of Paternal Contact After Parental Separation: A Latent Class Growth Analysis3
Marital Satisfaction and Dissatisfaction Among Ghanaians3
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
Who can refuse? Attitudes About the Fertility Decisions of Wives and Husbands3
The Well-Being Implications of Having Children: Evidence From Chinese National Surveys3
Parents and Unwed Daughters as an Intergenerational Alliance? – Parental Matchmaking and China’s Single Women3
Re-Examining the Link Between Premarital Sex and Divorce3
Relationship Status and Well-Being in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic2
Examining the Reciprocal Relationship Between Fathers’ Perceived Parenting Competence and Coparenting Across Early Childhood2
Family Strength During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Indonesia2
Korean Immigrant Fathers’ Perceptions and Attitudes Toward Their Parenting Involvement2
Intergenerational Value Discordances and Affectual and Associational Solidarity Between Older Parents and Adult Children2
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
How Does Religion Influence Parental Support of Young Adult Children?2
Can Bride Price “Purchase” Happiness? Evidence From China2
“We all have Regrets; it doesn’t Mean we are Failures”: Rejecting or Regretting Motherhood2
Title: New Parents’ Idealistic Expectations of Parenthood: The Impact of Preconceived Ideas2
The Cyber Intimate Partner Violence: Prevalence, Context, and Relationship With In-Person Intimate Violence Victimization2
An Examination of How Spending Time Together Impacts the Quality of Relationship Between Native American Stepchildren and Their Residential Stepparent2
Divorce Narratives and Class Inequalities in Indonesia2
Development of the Culturally Affirming and Responsive Experiences (CARE) Measure: Observing Responsiveness and Ethnic-Racial Cultural Socialization in Mother–Child Interactions2
Dyadic Effects of Stress on Family Life Satisfaction in Mothers and Adolescents: Sense of Hope as Mediator2
Child’s Gender, Parents’ Gender Ideology: Association and Contextual Variation in China2
Supporting Families Through Policies: Effective and Recommended Policies for Communication Technology, Digital Interventions, and Remote Work2
The Well-Being of Parents in the Year After Childbirth2
Mothers’ Post-separation Experiences of Male Partner Abuse: An Exploratory Study2
Consequences of Work-to-Family Conflicts for Parental Self-Efficacy—The Impact of Gender and Cultural Background in Germany2
Parenting During a Pandemic: Predictors of Parental Burnout2
Changing Motherhood in the South African Middle-Class Context2
Norwegian Biological Parents and Stepparents’ Attitudes Towards Family Obligations in Middle and Old Age2
The Struggle to Balance Work and Family Life During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Insights Based on the Situations of Working Women in Delhi2
Young Black Fathers’ Perceptions of Fatherhood: A Family Systems Account2
The Journey From Grandparent to Parent: Perceptions of Adoptive Grandparents Post-Adoption2
Household’s Stressors and Well-Being During the Global COVID-19 Pandemic1
Network Financial Transfers and Psychological Distress Among Unmarried Mothers1
Adolescent Emotional Competence Mediates Relations Between Parental Emotional Vulnerability During Conversations and Adolescent Depressive Symptoms1
Factors Influencing Employment Decisions Among Immigrants Caring for a Child With Special Health Care Needs1
Premarital Cohabitation, Marital Dissolution, and Marital Quality in China1
Families at Psychosocial Risk. Analysis of the Relation Between Parenting Competencies and Externalizing Problems in Children and Adolescents1
Whiteness in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Who is Talking About Racism With Their Kids?1
COVID-19 and Family Distancing Efforts: Contextual Demographic and Family Conflict Correlates1
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
Work–Family Conflict and Emotional Exhaustion During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Argentina: The Moderating Role of Personal, Family, and Job Resources1
A Qualitative Forum Analysis of Fathers’ Stressors and Support Seeking Behaviour During the COVID-19 Pandemic1
Consensus on Constraints in Marital Satisfaction Among Married People in African Context1
Parents’ Work–Family Conflict and Children’s Emotional Well-Being: The Mediating Role of Parenting Behaviors1
Taking Care of Elderly Parents or Children: How Are They Related to the Decision to Hire Foreign Domestic Helpers?1
The Relationships of Divorced Grandparents with Their Grandchildren1
Modern Marriage in a Traditional Society: The Influence of College Education on Marriage in India1
Contemporary Partner Preferences in Mate Selection: An Expanded List of Characteristics and the Addition of Constraints1
Patterns in Receiving Informal Help With Childcare Among U.S. Parents During the COVID-19 Pandemic1
Educational Difference Between Partners and Wife’s Happiness1
‘Hitting to Teach is One Thing, but to Hurt is a Different Thing, isn’t it?’: Understanding Cycles of Intergenerational Violence within Families1
Effect of Commitment on Supportive Dyadic Coping: A Longitudinal Test of Interdependence Theory With German Couples1
Doing Housework in Context: Dyadic Analyses of the Division of Domestic Labor in Contemporary Couples1
Teaching Wife’s Language to the Children of International Marriage Couples in South Korea1
“Sometimes, During Deployment, It Seems Like We Won’t Make It”: U.S. Military Deployment Transition Issues as a Precursor to Couples’ Reintegration Issues1
Factor Structure and Predictors of Resilience Among Custodial Grandparents1
Cultural Orientation, Racial-Ethnic Socialization, and Youth Adjustment Outcomes: Test of a Path Model With Asian American Parents1
Families With Early History of Parental Abuse and Neglect: Midlife Adult Children’s Relationships With Their Parents During COVID-191
The Revised Parent-Adolescent Conflict Issues Checklist: Development, Reliability, and Validity1
Investigation of the Mediating Role of Sense of Coherence Between Family Harmony and Well-Being Among High School Students in Turkey1
Immigration and Intergenerational Co-Residency Among Working-Aged Adults in the United Kingdom1
Gender Imbalance and the Re-Entry of Married Women Into the Labor Market in Urban China: A Marriage Market Perspective1
Connecting With Shosho: Assessing the Role of Grandmothers in a Low-Income Population in Nairobi, Kenya1
Parenting Concerns During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Results From a Canadian Crowdsourced Sample1
Transmission of and Views About Family Values in an Australian Convenience Sample: A Mixed Methods Study1
Do Gender and Relationship Length Jointly Moderate the Effects of Marital Dysfunctional Beliefs and Expectations on Marital Commitment Among Rwandan Married Couples?1
Self-Perspectives on Marriage Among Arabs With Disabilities Living in Israel1
The Long Arm of Stress and Strength: Poverty, Religious Attendance, and Black Mothers’ Parent–Child Relationships Over Time1
Parenting While Depressed: The Influence of Interpersonal Supports and Community Resources for Mothers1
Changes in Perceived Fairness of Division of Household Labor Across Parenthood Transitions: Whose Relationship Satisfaction Is Impacted?1
Examining the Relationships Between Fear of Coronavirus, State Anxiety, and Relationship Happiness Among Married Turkish Individuals During COVID-191
We Are Family: Effects of a Relationship-Strengthening Prevention Intervention on Parenting Behaviors Among Black and Latino Adolescent Couples1
How and Why Marriage is Related to Subjective Well-Being? Evidence from Chinese Society1
Home, Work, and Care Economy: A Qualitative Study of Disrupted Ecology and Family Precarity During COVID-191
Types of Family Leisure Activities in Families With Adolescents1
Socioeconomic Disadvantage as a Risk Factor for Attachment Insecurity: The Moderating Role of Gender1
It was Gendered Before, so why not Again? US Young Adults’ Expectations for Family Labor1
Work and Family Balance in Chilean Young People’s Life Plans1
The Effects of a Fatherhood Intervention on the Co-parenting Behaviors of Hispanic and Non-Hispanic Black Fathers1
Employed Mothers’ Justifications for Using Child Home Care Allowance in Finland1
Social Spheres of Protection and Threat: The Experiences of Black Men Married to White Women1
The Effect of Unilateral Divorce Laws on Marriage Outcomes1
Sandwiched Mothers: Parent Involvement and Mother’s Subjective Well-Being1
Parents’ Wisdom and Adolescents’ Cognitive, Social, and Emotional Developmental Qualities1
Parenting Values of African Immigrants1
Does Gender Difference Exist in Typologies of Intergenerational Relations? Adult Son-Parent and Daughter-Parent Relations in Hong Kong1
Emotion Work and Gender Inequality in Transnational Family Life1
The Role of Communication in the Quality of Relationships for Biological Children in Adoptive Families1
Remarriage in Thailand: A Study of Emerging Trends, Correlates, and Implications for Women's Well-Being1
Profiles of Father Involvement With Intergenerational Transmission and Family Contexts1
Quality Time as Focused Time? The Role of Focused Parental Time on the Wellbeing of Adolescents1
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