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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
“I Do Not Want to be a Weekend Papa”: The Demographic “Crisis,” Active Fatherhood, and Emergent Caring Masculinities in Berlin32
Experiences of Autonomy in Marriage and Divorce Within the Chinese Traditional System31
Grandparent Caregiver Wellbeing: A Strengths-Based Approach Utilizing the Positive Emotions, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishment (PERMA) Framework28
Men in Mixed-Orientation Marriages in Contemporary China: Unpacking the Role of Heteronormativity and Patriarchy26
We Are Family: Effects of a Relationship-Strengthening Prevention Intervention on Parenting Behaviors Among Black and Latino Adolescent Couples26
Forgiveness in Marriage: From Incidents to Marital Satisfaction25
Like My Own Children: A Quantitative Study of Stepparents Claiming Adult Stepchildren22
Association of Systemic Family Dynamics and Well-Being During the COVID-19 Outbreak: A Cross-Sectional Survey20
Family Dynamics in Cross-National Families With Young Children in Singapore19
The Heterogeneous Effect of Parental Investment on Old-Age Support: Only Children As the Main Caregivers in China18
The Role of Adverse Childhood Experiences in the Trajectories to Adulthood of Chinese Youth: A Retrospective Study16
Who can refuse? Attitudes About the Fertility Decisions of Wives and Husbands15
We Don’t Let It Build Up’: Relationship Satisfaction and Well-Being Among Equal-Sharing, Role-Reversed and Semi-Traditional Parents15
Policy Frameworks and Parental Choice: Using Conjoint Analysis to Understand Parental Decision Making for Child Care15
The Cyber Intimate Partner Violence: Prevalence, Context, and Relationship With In-Person Intimate Violence Victimization15
Macro-Level Correlates of Early Marriage in Asia15
Lower-Income Nonresident Fathers’ Self-Perceptions About Their Parenting Quality and Relationships With Children13
The Remarriage Belief Inventory: A Validation Study in the Remarried Portuguese Population13
Single Motherhood and Stress in a Kenyan Slum: The Importance of Paternal and Kin Support13
Determinants of Paternal Engagement: Investigating Low-Income Fathers’ Caregiving, Play, and Verbal Engagement With Infants13
Network Financial Transfers and Psychological Distress Among Unmarried Mothers13
Socioeconomic Disadvantage as a Risk Factor for Attachment Insecurity: The Moderating Role of Gender12
From Piggy Banks to Significant Others: Associations Between Financial Socialization and Romantic Relationship Flourishing in Emerging Adulthood12
A Study on Moderating Role of Family-Friendly Policies in Work–Life Balance12
Is it an Impossible Task? Exploring the Lived Experiences of Christian Parents With Young Children in the UK12
To Disclose or Conceal? Workplace Disability and Eldercare-Related Disclosure Decision-Making Strategies11
Joint Utility or Sub-optimal Outcomes? Household Income Development of Same-Sex and Different-Sex Couples Transitioning to Parenthood in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden11
Religion and Attitudes toward Childlessness in the United States11
The Relationships of Divorced Grandparents with Their Grandchildren11
The Impact of Physical Health, Race, and Financial Status on Relational Satisfaction11
Chinese Lesbian and Gay Adults’ Self-Reported Experiences of Negative Treatment and Violence From Family of Origin: Evidence From a Larger-Scale Study in China11
Age Gap Between Spouses in South and Southeast Asia11
Mexican-Origin College Students’ Stress, Sibling Relationships, Academic Motivation, and Depressive Symptoms10
Differences in Life Satisfaction and Emotions by Romantic Coupling and Sexual Orientation10
Attitudes Toward Heterosexual and Lesbian Stepmothers: An Experimental Test in the Italian Context10
Couple Conflict Behavior: Disentangling Associations With Relationship Dissatisfaction and Intimate Partner Violence10
Vulnerability of Poverty between Male and Female Headed Household in Tanzania9
Role of Attachment and Family Functioning in Problematic Smartphone Use in Young Adults9
Self-Reported Reasons for Divorce, Social Support, and Depression: An Exploratory Study With Hmong Women9
Parenting During a Pandemic: Predictors of Parental Burnout9
Attitudes Towards Home Care of Older Persons With Disabilities: The Case of Trinidad9
Feminist Mothering and Primary Prevention of Gendered Violence: Insights From Australian Mothers Raising Sons9
Perceived Injustice and Psychological Well-Being in Couples Seeking Fertility Treatment9
Parenting Immigrants: Understanding How Family Relationships Impact the Wellbeing of Older Chinese Immigrants Living on the Gold Coast, Australia9
Cohabitation and Its Consequences in Ghana9
‘Hitting to Teach is One Thing, but to Hurt is a Different Thing, isn’t it?’: Understanding Cycles of Intergenerational Violence within Families9
A Multilevel Investigation of the Effects of Daily Work–Family Interaction on Daily Affect During the COVID-19 Pandemic8
Does Gender Difference Exist in Typologies of Intergenerational Relations? Adult Son-Parent and Daughter-Parent Relations in Hong Kong8
Beyond the Economic-Need Hypothesis: A Life-Course Explanation of Women’s Extended Family Living Arrangements in Chile8
Family Strength During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Indonesia8
The Cost of “A Better Life”: Children Left Behind—Beyond Ambiguous Loss8
What Makes Families Healthy? Examining Correlates of Family Health in a Nationally Representative Sample of Adults in the United States8
Factors Influencing Employment Decisions Among Immigrants Caring for a Child With Special Health Care Needs8
Promoting Social Support as a Protective Factor for Parental Stress and Child Behavior Problems During the COVID-19 Pandemic8
Re-Examining the Link Between Premarital Sex and Divorce8
Sacrifice and Indebtedness: The Intergenerational Contract in Chinese Rural Migrant Families8
Mental Health Across the Life Course for Men and Women in Married, Cohabiting, and Living Apart Together Relationships8
Coparenting, Couple Conflict, Social Support, and Relationship Quality: A Dyadic Exploration of Couples From LIEM Backgrounds8
Teaching Wife’s Language to the Children of International Marriage Couples in South Korea8
Title: New Parents’ Idealistic Expectations of Parenthood: The Impact of Preconceived Ideas8
Family Disruption and Parenting During the COVID-19 Pandemic7
The Emotional Impact of Unfulfilled Career Aspirations for Stay-at-Home Mothers in Australia7
Parents and Unwed Daughters as an Intergenerational Alliance? – Parental Matchmaking and China’s Single Women7
Ownership Versus Partnership Parenting: Parenting Styles Within the Homeschooling Movement7
COVID-19 and Parental Burnout: Parents Locked Down but Not More Exhausted7
A Typology of Marital Quality among Javanese People7
Charting Work Arrangements and Family Configuration over Our Working Lives7
Parenting Behavior and Adolescent Affect: Bidirectionality and the Role of Gender7
Investigation of the Mediating Role of Sense of Coherence Between Family Harmony and Well-Being Among High School Students in Turkey7
Weathering the Storm: Longitudinal Evidence on Women’s Changing Family Relationships During COVID-197
Hours of Work and Early Childhood Education and Access to Care Services in Latin America: Evidence From Colombia, Chile, Mexico, and Uruguay7
Intergenerational Value Similarity and Subjective Well-Being7
Men’s Marriage Trends in Asia: Changes and Continuities7
Stigma, Outsider Status and Mothers in Prison7
Topics of Conflict Across Family Subsystems7
Parents’ Perceptions of Children’s Behavioral Difficulties and the Parent–Child Interaction During the COVID-19 Lockdown6
Grandparenting and Well-Being of the Elderly in China6
Longitudinal Psychological Family Studies in Austria: A Scoping Review6
A Sense of Connectedness in Reproductive Donation. Contrasting Policy With Donor and Donor Kin Lived Experience6
Employment Resources and the Physical and Mental Health of Mothers of Young Children6
Toward a Better Understanding of the Associations Among Different Measures of Father Involvement and Parenting Alliance6
Marital Beliefs and Decisions Among Young Chinese Medical Workers6
How Important Is Early Paternal Engagement? Deriving Longitudinal Measures of Fathers’ Childcare Engagement and Exploring Structural Relationships With Prior Engagement and Employment Hours6
Search and Communication About Origins in Internationally Adopted Young Adults in Spain: A Phenomenological Perspective6
Parental Mediation of Cell Phone Use and Adolescent Autonomy6
Does Family Context Moderate the Effects of Discrimination on Emerging Adults’ Health?6
Types of Family Leisure Activities in Families With Adolescents6
Parenting Concerns During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Results From a Canadian Crowdsourced Sample6
Is Everyone “Looking for Love?” Trends in Romantic Relationship Interest Among Singles During COVID-196
Determinants of Cohabitation in Taiwan: A Panel Data Analysis6
Children’s Contact With Fathers Who Never Co-Resided With Them and Father–Child Relationship Quality at age 96
Navigating Parenthood in the Pandemic: Revealing the Trade-offs of Childcare Choices Through Conjoint Analysis6
“We Can’t Say This Won’t Happen to Me”: Parent-Child Communication About Anti-Latino Discrimination6
Age and Gender Differences in Perceived Parenting Styles and Emotional Outcomes in Early Adolescents6
Home, Work, and Care Economy: A Qualitative Study of Disrupted Ecology and Family Precarity During COVID-196
The Influence of Work–Family Conflict on Parental Burnout in China: Moderating Effect of Spousal Support and its Gender Differences6
Infidelity and Anger within Incarcerated Couples: A Brief Report5
Challenging Heteronormativity: An Analysis of the Effect of Sexual Orientation on Earnings in Spain5
Sandwiched Mothers: Parent Involvement and Mother’s Subjective Well-Being5
Migration and Dynamics in Men’s and Women’s Domestic Work5
How Parents Play: Play Style as a Function of Gender of Parent, Gender of Child, and Play Context5
Caregivers’ Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Their Children’s Behavior5
Adverse Childhood Experiences, Family Social Capital, and Externalizing Behavior Problems: An Analysis Across Multiple Ecological Levels5
Do Spousal Intimate Relationships Affect Fertility Intentions and Preferences?5
The Role of Food and Food Behaviors in Intimate Partner Violence5
Social Support and Quality of Life Among People Living With HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in Ghana5
The Impact of Paternity Leave Compared to Unemployment on Child Care and Housework Distribution in Spain5
Will Adults’ Happiness be Affected by Childhood Parental Divorce? Evidence From China5
Don’t Forget the Parents: Caregiver Coping Strategies for Daughter’s Juvenile Legal System Involvement5
Prioritized Functions of Family Systems Over Time: A Qualitative Analysis5
Mothers and Others: How Collective Strategies Reproduce Social Norms Around Motherhood5
Longitudinal Association Between the Quality of the Separated Parents’ Relationship and the Frequency of Father–Child Contact: The Mothers’ Perspective5
Changes in Attachment and Commitment in Couples Transitioning to Parenthood5
Stepfamily Involvement in and out of School and (Step)children’s College Preparation Behaviors: A Latent Cluster Analysis5
Intergenerational Value Discordances and Affectual and Associational Solidarity Between Older Parents and Adult Children5
Are You Satisfied? Examining Positive Interaction and Satisfaction in Romantic Relationships5
Parents’ Perceptions of Education and Culture as a Context of Parental Stress: A Study of Parents of Preschool Children in Hong Kong5
Social Spheres of Protection and Threat: The Experiences of Black Men Married to White Women5
Does Family Decision-Making Power Improve Women’s Happiness?5
Child–Parent Relationships and Older Adults’ Health: A Cross-Cultural Comparison Between China and the United States5
‘It’s a Man’s Job’: Doing Gender and Male Gatekeeping in the Division of Household Labor5
Exploring the Facilitators and Barriers to Maintaining Intimate Relationships during Covid-19 through Online Photovoice Methodology5
The Role of Gender in the Perception of Different Forms of Psychological Violence in Young Couples4
Navigating the Gap: Children’s Experiences of Home and School Life Following Maternal Death4
Targeted Fathers’ Beliefs in a Just World4
The Experience of Being Fathered of Mexican-origin Male Youth4
Consequences of Work-to-Family Conflicts for Parental Self-Efficacy—The Impact of Gender and Cultural Background in Germany4
A Qualitative Forum Analysis of Fathers’ Stressors and Support Seeking Behaviour During the COVID-19 Pandemic4
Study on Marriage Pairings and Women’s Fertility Intentions in China4
Effects of Intimate Partner Violence Prevention Programming on Social Support, Coparenting, and Parenting Among Teen Parents: A Pilot Study4
What Is Natural Is Best: A Qualitative Exploration of Women’s Engagement in Attachment Parenting4
Mothers’ Post-separation Experiences of Male Partner Abuse: An Exploratory Study4
“We all have Regrets; it doesn’t Mean we are Failures”: Rejecting or Regretting Motherhood4
Bonding With Adolescents in Foster Care: Perspectives of Foster Parents4
Locking Down Gender Roles? A Time-Use Perspective on Gender Division of Household Labour during the COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown in Belgium4
Families in Multi-Problem Situations in India: Exploration From the Fifth Round of the National Family Health Survey4
Parents’ Access to Flexible Work Arrangements and Time in Active Caregiving Activities4
Longitudinal Associations Between Household Labor Division Inequity and Conflict Among Newlywed Couples4
Alexithymia, Fear of Intimacy, and Relationship Satisfaction4
Partners’ Educational Pairings and Subjective Well-Being in China: An Analysis Using the Diagonal Mobility Model4
Intergenerational Transmission of Values: From Parent–Child Value Similarity to Parent–Child Value Continuity4
The Well-Being of Parents in the Year After Childbirth4
A Cohort Comparison of Midlife Marital Quality: A Quarter Century of Change4
Parents’ and Children’s Privacy Management about Sensitive Topics: A Dyadic Study4
Can Parents Manage Their Children’s Future Happiness?—: A Retrospective Inquiry4
Measurement Invariance in the Alabama Parenting Questionnaire: Implications for Culturally Inclusive Parenting Research4
A World Through Glass: A Narrative Around the Family Experiences During the Confinement of COVID-194
How Does Law Prescribe Circulation of Children? Understanding Different Kinds of Movement Within the Adoption Law in India4
Women’s Attitudes Toward Intimate Partner Violence in Sindh, Pakistan: An Analysis of Multiple Indicators Cluster Survey4
Relationship Between Mobile Penetration Rate and Divorce Rate in Iran During 1995–2019: A Time-Series Study4
“A Woman’s Degree Must End in the Kitchen”: Expectations of Women in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo4
Does Locus of Control Influence Parentification and Anxiety in Father–Daughter Relationships?4
Doing Housework in Context: Dyadic Analyses of the Division of Domestic Labor in Contemporary Couples4
Relationship Status and Well-Being in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic4
Imbalanced Sex Ratios and Marital Transitions in Mexico4
Say Yes to the Grandkids: Grandparenting in Chinese Lesbian and Gay Parent Families3
Parent–Child Leisure and Parent Affect: The Role of Family Structure3
Family Communication and Psychological Distress in the Era of COVID-19 Pandemic: Mediating Role of Coping3
The Role of Men During Pregnancy: A Cross-Sectional Study of Perceptions and Beliefs of Primary Caregivers in Tanzania3
Division of Housework and Women’s Fertility Willingness3
He’s Working from Home and I’m at Home Trying to Work: Experiences of Childcare and the Work–Family Balance Among Mothers During COVID-193
Adverse Childhood Experiences in Parents and Their Effects on Adult Children3
Outsourcing for How Long? Factors and Duration of Employing Foreign Live-in Domestic Helpers3
Parents’ Approaches to Their Children’s Education and Related Issues During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Slovak and the Czech Republic3
Effects of Migration on the Language and Literacy Practices of Turkish Parents in England3
Divorce Narratives and Class Inequalities in Indonesia3
Fictive Kin Networks among African Americans, Black Caribbeans, and Non-Latino Whites3
Young Black Fathers’ Perceptions of Fatherhood: A Family Systems Account3
The Double-Edged Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Chinese Family Relationships3
Spouses’ Health: What Happens Beyond the Widowhood Effect?3
“My Whole Family Is Not Really My Family”—Secure Care Shadows on Family and Family Practices Among Young Adults and Their Family Members3
Academia and Motherhood: A Narrative Inquiry of Ontario Academic Mothers’ Experiences in University Graduate Programs3
Children’s Experiences of Lockdown and Social Distancing in the Covid-19 Pandemic3
White Parents’ Racial Socialization: Questionnaire Validation and Associations with Children’s Friendships3
Parental Alienating Behaviours Experienced by Alienated Grandparents3
Sibling Relationships and Social Development in Youth and Emerging Adults: A Self-Determination Theory Approach3
Grandparents’ Retirement and Mother’s Employment Quality: The Mediating Role of Intergenerational Caregiving3
Sexual Identity in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer or Questioning Emerging Adults: The Role of Parental Rejection, and Sexuality Specific Family Support3
Korean Immigrant Fathers’ Perceptions and Attitudes Toward Their Parenting Involvement3
Patterns of Stepsibling Relationship Development3
Anxieties and Coping among Filipino New Fathers with Postnatal Depression3
Social Representation of Family: A Comparative Study on Italian Young and Older Adults3
Could Personality and Parental Relations Be a Risk Factor for Self-Injurious Behavior?3
Intergenerational Perspectives of Paternal Parenting Practices: A Descriptive Qualitative Study3
Relationship Beliefs and Communication Skills in Turkish Married Individuals: Examining the Mediating Role of Partner Accommodation Behavior and Emotional Dependency3
Abdication of Responsibility for Father–Child Contact in a Group of Black South African Non-resident Father Families: A Systems Perspective3
Whiteness in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Who is Talking About Racism With Their Kids?3
Changing Motherhood in the South African Middle-Class Context3
Foster Caregivers’ Parenting Stress as a Moderator of Change in Coparenting Following Relationship Education3
Patterns of Paternal Involvement of Korean Fathers: A Person-Centered Approach3
Parenting Desire Among Childless Lesbian and Gay Individuals in China: The Influence of Traditional Family Values, Minority Stress, and Parenting Motivation3
Family Life During and Beyond COVID-19: The Impact of Relationship Quality on Caregivers’ Management of Paid Work, Caregiving, and Self-Care3
Parenthood Desire in Italian Homosexual Couples3
How Do Caregiving Responsibilities Affect Women’s Work–Family Spillovers Over the Life Course?3
“Mature Enough to Handle it?”: Gendered Parental Interventions in and Adolescents’ Reactions to Technology Use During the Pandemic3
Personality Traits and Attachments Styles in Romantic Relationships Deciding3
A Qualitative Exploration of Fathers’ Antenatal and Postnatal Challenges3
Effect of Daily Stress on Desire for Physical Proximity and Emotional Closeness3
Doing Gender with Class: Gender Division of Unpaid Work in Russian Middle-Class Dual Earner Heterosexual Households3
“I Would Like to Have a Normal Brother but I’m Happy With the Brother That I Have”: A Pilot Study About Intellectual Disabilities and Family Quality of Life From the Perspective of Siblings3
Siblinghood Amongst Older Adults: What Being a Sibling or Having Siblings Means3
Do Stepmothers Pay a Wage Penalty?3
Union Formation Expectations Among Older Adults Who Live Apart Together in the USA3
Early Life Family Care for and With Migrants: The Development of a Transcultural Transition Mentoring Competence Profile3
Exploring Civil Partnership From the Perspective of Those in Mixed-Sex Relationships: Embracing a Clean Slate of Equality3
Consistency and Transformation of Filial Responsibility Attitudes in China: Evidence from Panel Study of Family Dynamics of 2004 and 20173
College Student Persistence: A Focus on Relationships With Parents3
Work-to-Family Conflict and Children’s Problems with School, Friends, and Health: Household Economic Conditions and Couple Relationship Quality as Contingencies3
Maternal Informal Learning Experiences that Shape Parenting Practices3
Factor Structure and Predictors of Resilience Among Custodial Grandparents3
Portraits of Life After Loss: Understanding Parental Loss Within A Social Context2
Fairness Perceptions of the Division of Household Labor: Housework and Childcare2
Coparenting Quality During COVID-19: Exploring Gender Differences Using a Mixed Methods Approach2
Protective Factors for Military Veteran Fathers’ Parenting Functioning and Satisfaction2
Psychosocial Consequences of Disclosing Misattributed Paternity: A Narrative Review2
The Effects of a Fatherhood Intervention on the Co-parenting Behaviors of Hispanic and Non-Hispanic Black Fathers2
Families With Early History of Parental Abuse and Neglect: Midlife Adult Children’s Relationships With Their Parents During COVID-192
“I didn’t Even Realize I Agreed to Meet the Child so Rarely.” Negotiations and Parental Desires in LGBTQ Family Forming Processes2
Preliminary Analysis of the Past and Planned Investments Measure in Turkish Dual-Career Married Individuals2
Grandchild Caring and Late-Life Depression: A Comparative Longitudinal Study in China and Europe2
Investigating the Psychometric Properties of the Arabic Version of the Family Adaptability and Cohesion Evaluation Scale IV (FACES IV) in Saudi Arabia2
“Going-With-The-Flow” or “Getting-Things-Done”: A Folk Model of Intensive Parenting Among Middle-Class Parents2
That Conversation within the Conversation”: A Mixed Methods Study of Skin Tone and Black Parents’ Racial Socialization2
Student Parents or Parent Students in Lockdown Pandemic? A Third Space approach2
Household’s Stressors and Well-Being During the Global COVID-19 Pandemic2
Gendered Housework Among Adolescents in India2
Parents’ Emotional Responses to Early Parenthood2
Help-Seeking Behaviors of Male Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence in Kenya2
Filial Piety, Intimacy, and Inter-Generational Contract: Understanding the Family Support to Rural Empty-Nest Older Parents in China2
“This Gradual Swing Back into Us”: Active Duty Army Spouses’ Experiences During Homecoming and Post-Deployment Family Reintegration2
Do Migrant Parents’ Income or Relationships With Their Left-Behind Children Compensate for Their Physical Absence?2
The Trajectory of Subjective Well-Being: A Partial Explanation of the Marriage Advantage2
Coping With Parental Pressure to Get Married: Perspectives From Chinese “Leftover Women”2
Family Relationships and Young Italian Adults’ Well-Being: The Mediation Role of Mattering2
Patterns and Predictors of Taiwanese Adult Children’s Intergenerational Exchanges Before and After Economic Stagnation2
‘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 Practices2
COVID-19 attributed Changes of Home and Family Responsibilities among Single Mothers2
Premarital Cohabitation, Marital Dissolution, and Marital Quality in China2
Socio-economic Correlates of Marital Status and Marriage Timing Among Adult Men in Nigeria2
A Mixed Methods Study of Relationship Satisfaction in Parents of Children With Down Syndrome2
The Struggle to Balance Work and Family Life During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Insights Based on the Situations of Working Women in Delhi2
The Intergenerational Transmission of Life Satisfaction between Parents and Children and the Mediating Role of Supportive Parenting2
Sexual Division in Parenting: A Normative Context That Hinders Co-Responsibility2
Working Hours and Fertility: The Impact of Nonstandard Work Schedules on Childbearing in France2
Work–Family Conflicts among Female Staff of Higher Institutions in Nigeria2
Interparental Conflict and Chinese Children’s Social Development2
Parenting as Beta Testing: Perceived Changes in Parenting from Firstborns to Secondborns2
Influences on Father Intentions to Engage in Caregiving2
The Effects of Parents’ and Their Children’s Characteristics on Parental Involvement in Sport2
Received Affection and Caregiving in the Grandparent–Grandchild Relationship2
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