OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Family Issues is 4. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Parenting Immigrants: Understanding How Family Relationships Impact the Wellbeing of Older Chinese Immigrants Living on the Gold Coast, Australia	45
Is it an Impossible Task? Exploring the Lived Experiences of Christian Parents With Young Children in the UK	40
The Remarriage Belief Inventory: A Validation Study in the Remarried Portuguese Population	32
The Role of Adverse Childhood Experiences in the Trajectories to Adulthood of Chinese Youth: A Retrospective Study	28
Chinese Lesbian and Gay Adults’ Self-Reported Experiences of Negative Treatment and Violence From Family of Origin: Evidence From a Larger-Scale Study in China	24
Feminist Mothering and Primary Prevention of Gendered Violence: Insights From Australian Mothers Raising Sons	21
Weathering the Storm: Longitudinal Evidence on Women’s Changing Family Relationships During COVID-19	21
Parental Recollections of Bullying	19
Advice for New Stepparents From the Perspective of Stepchildren Who Experienced Stepfamily Formation During Adolescence	19
The Impact of Physical Health, Race, and Financial Status on Relational Satisfaction	17
Educational Assortative Mating and Its Impact on Marital Quality in China	15
Attitudes Toward Heterosexual and Lesbian Stepmothers: An Experimental Test in the Italian Context	15
Experiences of Autonomy in Marriage and Divorce Within the Chinese Traditional System	15
Mental Health Across the Life Course for Men and Women in Married, Cohabiting, and Living Apart Together Relationships	15
The Cost of “A Better Life”: Children Left Behind—Beyond Ambiguous Loss	15
Parents’ Perceptions of Children’s Behavioral Difficulties and the Parent–Child Interaction During the COVID-19 Lockdown	14
Grandparenting and Well-Being of the Elderly in China	14
Parents’ Perceptions of Education and Culture as a Context of Parental Stress: A Study of Parents of Preschool Children in Hong Kong	13
Infidelity and Anger within Incarcerated Couples: A Brief Report	13
Will Adults’ Happiness be Affected by Childhood Parental Divorce? Evidence From China	13
Caregivers’ Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Their Children’s Behavior	12
How Parents Play: Play Style as a Function of Gender of Parent, Gender of Child, and Play Context	11
Imbalanced Sex Ratios and Marital Transitions in Mexico	11
It’s the Thought that Counts: Pregnancy Intention and Relationship Stressors Across SES	10
Child–Parent Relationships and Older Adults’ Health: A Cross-Cultural Comparison Between China and the United States	10

Children’s Contact With Fathers Who Never Co-Resided With Them and Father–Child Relationship Quality at age 9	9
“I didn’t Even Realize I Agreed to Meet the Child so Rarely.” Negotiations and Parental Desires in LGBTQ Family Forming Processes	9
“Mature Enough to Handle it?”: Gendered Parental Interventions in and Adolescents’ Reactions to Technology Use During the Pandemic	9
Mothers and Others: How Collective Strategies Reproduce Social Norms Around Motherhood	9
Navigating Parenthood in the Pandemic: Revealing the Trade-offs of Childcare Choices Through Conjoint Analysis	9
Doing Gender with Class: Gender Division of Unpaid Work in Russian Middle-Class Dual Earner Heterosexual Households	9
Early Life Family Care for and With Migrants: The Development of a Transcultural Transition Mentoring Competence Profile	9
Preliminary Analysis of the Past and Planned Investments Measure in Turkish Dual-Career Married Individuals	9
Sexual Identity in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer or Questioning Emerging Adults: The Role of Parental Rejection, and Sexuality Specific Family Support	9
Socio-economic Correlates of Marital Status and Marriage Timing Among Adult Men in Nigeria	9
Coparenting Quality During COVID-19: Exploring Gender Differences Using a Mixed Methods Approach	8
A Hybrid Model for the Intergenerational Relationship Between Maternal Poverty and Their Young Adult Child’s Self-Esteem	8
Parental Alienating Behaviours Experienced by Alienated Grandparents	8
Academia and Motherhood: A Narrative Inquiry of Ontario Academic Mothers’ Experiences in University Graduate Programs	8
Family Communication and Psychological Distress in the Era of COVID-19 Pandemic: Mediating Role of Coping	8
When Working From Home Fails to Support Work–Life Balance: The Role of Childcare- and Work-Related Demands	8
Who You Live With Matters: Living Arrangements and Life Expectancy With the Evidence From Eighteen-Year Follow-Up Data	8
“She Took Care of Us and She Went Through a Lot”: Emotional Availability, Emotional Support, and Millennials’ Gendered Understandings of Parenting	7
Foster Caregiver Experiences: Implications for Retention and Satisfaction	7
Perspectives on Sexual Socialization from a Sample of Black Heterosexual College Women	7
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?	7
Familial Predictors of Alcohol and Drug Use-Related Problems Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults	7
Loneliness Among Chinese Older Adults: The Role of Grandparenthood and Grandparental Childcare by Gender	7
How to Find Mr/Miss Right? The Mechanism of Search Among Online Daters in Shanghai	7
The Racialization of Latino Families	7
Portraits of Life After Loss: Understanding Parental Loss Within A Social Context	7
‘It’s Nothing Serious I Suppose’ Family Help-Seeking for Adolescent Social Anxiety	7
Symptoms of Anxiety in Mothers During the COVID-19 Lockdown: A Structural Equation Model Approach	7
Ready for Parenthood? On Intensive Parenting Ideals and Fertility	7
Parents’ Family Coping Strategies during the Pandemic: Effects on Parent and Child Well-Being	7
The Inverse Association Between Number of Siblings and Divorce: New Evidence From China and Europe	7
Attitudes and Feelings Among Married Mothers and Single Mothers by Choice During the Covid-19 Crisis	7
Understanding Military Motherhood: How the Armed Forces’ Childcare and Family Leave Policies Impact Servicewomen with Young Children	7
Student Parents or Parent Students in Lockdown Pandemic? A Third Space approach	7
“I Would Like to, But My World Wouldn’t End If I Didn’t”: Marital Aspirations Among Sexual Minority Young Adults	7
‘We Call It the Square Au Pair’. Exploring Working Mothers’ Experiences of Using Digital Devices as ‘Babysitters’	7
Parental Stress Provoked by Short-Term School Closures During the Second COVID-19 Lockdown	6
Exploring Linkages Between Mother–Child and Sibling Relationship Quality and Prosocial Behavior Between School-Aged and Adolescent Siblings	6
Racial Disparity in Parenting Practice Among Parents With Young Children	6
Joint Utility or Sub-optimal Outcomes? Household Income Development of Same-Sex and Different-Sex Couples Transitioning to Parenthood in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden	6
Differences in Life Satisfaction and Emotions by Romantic Coupling and Sexual Orientation	6
Exploring the Psychosocial Experiences of Within the Family Adoptees: An initiative for Mental Well-Being	6
Women Caregivers Under the Spanish Autonomy and Dependence System: A New Social Underclass?	6
“Once You Become a Parent, You are a Parent Forever”: An Examination of Memorable Messages About Having Children and Becoming a Parent	6
Motherhood and Childfree Choice: Accounts of Indian Childfree Women	6
Coparenting, Couple Conflict, Social Support, and Relationship Quality: A Dyadic Exploration of Couples From LIEM Backgrounds	6
Family Dynamics in Cross-National Families With Young Children in Singapore	6
International Displacement and Family Stress in Latin America	6
Socialization Past and Present: Intergenerational Transmission of Parenting Behaviors in Multispecies Families	6
Trends in the Prevalence of Childfree Women in the Philippines, 1993–2022	6

Quality and Quantity of Grandparent Contact: Associations with Late Adolescents’ Psychological Adjustment	6
Vulnerability of Poverty between Male and Female Headed Household in Tanzania	6
The Heterogeneous Effect of Parental Investment on Old-Age Support: Only Children As the Main Caregivers in China	5
The Influence of Work–Family Conflict on Parental Burnout in China: Moderating Effect of Spousal Support and its Gender Differences	5
A Sense of Connectedness in Reproductive Donation. Contrasting Policy With Donor and Donor Kin Lived Experience	5
The Impact of Paternity Leave Compared to Unemployment on Child Care and Housework Distribution in Spain	5
The Long-Term Impact of Family Experiences in Adolescence on Mother–Child Relationships in Early Adulthood	5
How Important Is Early Paternal Engagement? Deriving Longitudinal Measures of Fathers’ Childcare Engagement and Exploring Structural Relationships With Prior Engagement and Employment Hours	5
How Nonreligious Parents Approach the (Non)Religious Socialization of Their Children	5
Families in Multi-Problem Situations in India: Exploration From the Fifth Round of the National Family Health Survey	5
Abdication of Responsibility for Father–Child Contact in a Group of Black South African Non-resident Father Families: A Systems Perspective	5
Men’s Marriage Trends in Asia: Changes and Continuities	5
Parental Mediation of Cell Phone Use and Adolescent Autonomy	5
Marital Beliefs and Decisions Among Young Chinese Medical Workers	5
‘It’s a Man’s Job’: Doing Gender and Male Gatekeeping in the Division of Household Labor	5
Are You Satisfied? Examining Positive Interaction and Satisfaction in Romantic Relationships	5
Macro-Level Correlates of Early Marriage in Asia	5
Women’s Attitudes Toward Intimate Partner Violence in Sindh, Pakistan: An Analysis of Multiple Indicators Cluster Survey	5
Parents’ Experiences in the Coming Out Process of LGB Individuals: A Focus on Mothers’ Journeys	5
Single Motherhood and Stress in a Kenyan Slum: The Importance of Paternal and Kin Support	5
Longitudinal Psychological Family Studies in Austria: A Scoping Review	5
Lower-Income Nonresident Fathers’ Self-Perceptions About Their Parenting Quality and Relationships With Children	5
Effects of Intimate Partner Violence Prevention Programming on Social Support, Coparenting, and Parenting Among Teen Parents: A Pilot Study	5
“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 Children	4
Blessing or Burden: Transitions Into Eldercare and Caregiver Mental Health	4
Marital Satisfaction and Dissatisfaction Among Ghanaians	4
Financial Stress, Family, Marital, and Life Satisfaction of Turkish Families During Covid-19: What Did We Learn?	4
Social Capital, Families, Friendships, and Inter-generational Mobility	4
Gender Equality in the Division of Housework and Fertility Intentions in Canada: The Moderating Effect of Employment and Education	4
The Double-Edged Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Chinese Family Relationships	4
Are Intensive Parenting Attitudes Internationally Generalizable? The Case of Sweden	4
Children’s Experiences of Lockdown and Social Distancing in the Covid-19 Pandemic	4
Marital Quality as a Mechanism Linking Childhood Abuse to Mental Health	4
‘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 Practices	4
A Mixed Methods Study of Relationship Satisfaction in Parents of Children With Down Syndrome	4
Difficulties Imposed on the Parent–Child Relationship Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic	4
A Deeper Understanding of the Relationship between Family of Origin and Young Adult Cyber Dating Abuse: A Mediation Model	4
Help-Seeking Behaviors of Male Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence in Kenya	4
Fatherlessness: Black Jamaican Mothers’ Perspectives	4
“Going-With-The-Flow” or “Getting-Things-Done”: A Folk Model of Intensive Parenting Among Middle-Class Parents	4
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 Belgium	4
Siblinghood Amongst Older Adults: What Being a Sibling or Having Siblings Means	4
Relationship Beliefs and Communication Skills in Turkish Married Individuals: Examining the Mediating Role of Partner Accommodation Behavior and Emotional Dependency	4
Singleness and the Pandemic Dating Recession	4
Number of Siblings and Mental Health Among Adolescents: Evidence From the U.S. and China	4
Coupling with COVID: The Role of Dyadic Coping in Relationship Satisfaction and Psychological Distress during the COVID-19 Pandemic	4
Parent/Caregiver Narratives of Challenges Related to Raising Transgender and/or Nonbinary Youth	4
Bullying Victimization Among Ukrainian College Students: The Role of Family Communication and Satisfaction, Corporal Punishment and Child Abuse	4
Filial Piety, Intimacy, and Inter-Generational Contract: Understanding the Family Support to Rural Empty-Nest Older Parents in China	4
Exploring Civil Partnership From the Perspective of Those in Mixed-Sex Relationships: Embracing a Clean Slate of Equality	4
Family Relationships and Young Italian Adults’ Well-Being: The Mediation Role of Mattering	4
Grandchild Caring and Late-Life Depression: A Comparative Longitudinal Study in China and Europe	4