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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Attitudes Toward Heterosexual and Lesbian Stepmothers: An Experimental Test in the Italian Context	34
Is it an Impossible Task? Exploring the Lived Experiences of Christian Parents With Young Children in the UK	24
Feminist Mothering and Primary Prevention of Gendered Violence: Insights From Australian Mothers Raising Sons	23
Parental Recollections of Bullying	22
Latent Class of Child-Rearing Values and Their Relationships With Fertility	15
Educational Assortative Mating and Its Impact on Marital Quality in China	15
Mothering Black Adolescents: Personal and Adolescent-Experienced Racial Discrimination, Superwoman Schema, and Black American Mothers’ Mental Health	14
Parenting Immigrants: Understanding How Family Relationships Impact the Wellbeing of Older Chinese Immigrants Living on the Gold Coast, Australia	13
The Role of Adverse Childhood Experiences in the Trajectories to Adulthood of Chinese Youth: A Retrospective Study	12
Subjective Well-Being of Children and Caregivers: The Role of Caregiver Traits and Socioeconomic Pressures in Ethiopia	12
Infidelity and Anger within Incarcerated Couples: A Brief Report	11
It’s the Thought that Counts: Pregnancy Intention and Relationship Stressors Across SES	11
The Effect of Maternal Parenting Attitudes on Family Functioning	11
Imbalanced Sex Ratios and Marital Transitions in Mexico	11
Presence Matters: Perceptions of Emotional and Social Involvement of Black Fathers	11
Advice for New Stepparents From the Perspective of Stepchildren Who Experienced Stepfamily Formation During Adolescence	11
Will Adults’ Happiness be Affected by Childhood Parental Divorce? Evidence From China	11
Navigating Parenthood in the Pandemic: Revealing the Trade-offs of Childcare Choices Through Conjoint Analysis	11
“Me Siento Mal”: Mexican and Central American Immigrants’ Narratives on the Emotional Costs of Extended Parental Separation	10
Children’s Contact With Fathers Who Never Co-Resided With Them and Father–Child Relationship Quality at age 9	10
Grandparenting and Well-Being of the Elderly in China	10
The Relationship Between Family Socio-Economic Status and Preschool Children’s Social Competence: The Chain Mediating Role of Family Internal Support and Children’s Empathy	10
Resilience Among African American Adolescent Girls Navigating Fatherlessness: A Qualitative Inquiry	10
Mothers and Others: How Collective Strategies Reproduce Social Norms Around Motherhood	10
Through Their Eyes: “My Mother Hit Me Because I’m a Girl…” The Looking-Glass Self and Parents’ Perception of Childhood Maltreatment	10

How Parents Play: Play Style as a Function of Gender of Parent, Gender of Child, and Play Context	10
Early Life Family Care for and With Migrants: The Development of a Transcultural Transition Mentoring Competence Profile	9
Coparenting Quality During COVID-19: Exploring Gender Differences Using a Mixed Methods Approach	9
Acculturation and Resilience Influences from the Latino Fathers’ Perspective	9
“Mature Enough to Handle it?”: Gendered Parental Interventions in and Adolescents’ Reactions to Technology Use During the Pandemic	9
When Working From Home Fails to Support Work–Life Balance: The Role of Childcare- and Work-Related Demands	9
The Inverse Association Between Number of Siblings and Divorce: New Evidence From China and Europe	8
Portraits of Life After Loss: Understanding Parental Loss Within A Social Context	8
A Hybrid Model for the Intergenerational Relationship Between Maternal Poverty and Their Young Adult Child’s Self-Esteem	8
Perspectives on Sexual Socialization from a Sample of Black Heterosexual College Women	8
Parental Alienating Behaviours Experienced by Alienated Grandparents	8
Who You Live With Matters: Living Arrangements and Life Expectancy With the Evidence From Eighteen-Year Follow-Up Data	8
Foster Caregiver Experiences: Implications for Retention and Satisfaction	7
Father Involvement in Asian Families: A Systematic Literature Review	7
‘We Call It the Square Au Pair’. Exploring Working Mothers’ Experiences of Using Digital Devices as ‘Babysitters’	7
The Politics of the Home: How Family Labour Division, Patriarchy, and Kinship Reproduce Gender Inequality	7
Racial Disparity in Parenting Practice Among Parents With Young Children	7
Ready for Parenthood? On Intensive Parenting Ideals and Fertility	7
Reasons and Future Plans of Couples Who Experienced Infidelity and Stayed Together	7
“I Would Like to, But My World Wouldn’t End If I Didn’t”: Marital Aspirations Among Sexual Minority Young Adults	7
A Qualitative Study on How Caribbean Coparents Navigate Communication After Divorce and Separation	7
International Displacement and Family Stress in Latin America	7
Exploring the Psychosocial Experiences of Within the Family Adoptees: An initiative for Mental Well-Being	7
Understanding Military Motherhood: How the Armed Forces’ Childcare and Family Leave Policies Impact Servicewomen with Young Children	7
Attitudes and Feelings Among Married Mothers and Single Mothers by Choice During the Covid-19 Crisis	7
When Kin Are Far: Reshaping Social Support Networks in Later Life	7
Quality and Quantity of Grandparent Contact: Associations with Late Adolescents’ Psychological Adjustment	7
“Once You Become a Parent, You are a Parent Forever”: An Examination of Memorable Messages About Having Children and Becoming a Parent	7
Toward a Transition Transaction Theory: Understanding the Father–Child Relationship	6
Mexican American Fathers in Research: Understanding Perceptions, Barriers, and Contributors to Participation	6
How to Find Mr/Miss Right? The Mechanism of Search Among Online Daters in Shanghai	6
Family Dynamics in Cross-National Families With Young Children in Singapore	6
Parents’ Family Coping Strategies during the Pandemic: Effects on Parent and Child Well-Being	6
Exploring Linkages Between Mother–Child and Sibling Relationship Quality and Prosocial Behavior Between School-Aged and Adolescent Siblings	6
The Impact of Financial Capability on Household Economic Resilience: Perspectives and Insights From China	6
Macro-Level Correlates of Early Marriage in Asia	6
Trends in the Prevalence of Childfree Women in the Philippines, 1993–2022	6
Motherhood and Childfree Choice: Accounts of Indian Childfree Women	6
How Nonreligious Parents Approach the (Non)Religious Socialization of Their Children	6
Socialization Past and Present: Intergenerational Transmission of Parenting Behaviors in Multispecies Families	6
Coparenting, Couple Conflict, Social Support, and Relationship Quality: A Dyadic Exploration of Couples From LIEM Backgrounds	5
A Sense of Connectedness in Reproductive Donation. Contrasting Policy With Donor and Donor Kin Lived Experience	5
Men’s Marriage Trends in Asia: Changes and Continuities	5
Marital Beliefs and Decisions Among Young Chinese Medical Workers	5
Lower-Income Nonresident Fathers’ Self-Perceptions About Their Parenting Quality and Relationships With Children	5
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	5
The Divorce Gender Gap: Gender Differences in Economic Conditions and General Well-Being After Divorce	5
Women’s Attitudes Toward Intimate Partner Violence in Sindh, Pakistan: An Analysis of Multiple Indicators Cluster Survey	5
Families in Multi-Problem Situations in India: Exploration From the Fifth Round of the National Family Health Survey	5
Diapers vs. Date Nights: A Longitudinal Comparison of Premaritally Pregnant, Postmaritally Pregnant Parents, and Nonparents on Marital Disillusionment and Satisfaction	5

The Long-Term Impact of Family Experiences in Adolescence on Mother–Child Relationships in Early Adulthood	5
Single Motherhood and Stress in a Kenyan Slum: The Importance of Paternal and Kin Support	5
‘It’s a Man’s Job’: Doing Gender and Male Gatekeeping in the Division of Household Labor	5
The Heterogeneous Effect of Parental Investment on Old-Age Support: Only Children As the Main Caregivers in China	5
Abdication of Responsibility for Father–Child Contact in a Group of Black South African Non-resident Father Families: A Systems Perspective	4
Singleness and the Pandemic Dating Recession	4
Balancing Work and Care: Exploring the Effects of Women’s Paid Employment on Children’s Development	4
Religion and Women’s Emotional Responses to Abortion	4
Effects of Intimate Partner Violence Prevention Programming on Social Support, Coparenting, and Parenting Among Teen Parents: A Pilot Study	4
Are Intensive Parenting Attitudes Internationally Generalizable? The Case of Sweden	4
Siblinghood Amongst Older Adults: What Being a Sibling or Having Siblings Means	4
Fatherlessness: Black Jamaican Mothers’ Perspectives	4
The Moderating Role of Parent–Grandparent Co-Parenting in Parental Stress and Mental Health	4
Are You Satisfied? Examining Positive Interaction and Satisfaction in Romantic Relationships	4
Who Decides What to Use? Contraceptive Decisions of Muslim Women in Bangladesh	4
“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
Refugees, Family Dynamics, and Resilience: Integrating Systemic Disruptions and Individual Coping Mechanisms	4
“Going-With-The-Flow” or “Getting-Things-Done”: A Folk Model of Intensive Parenting Among Middle-Class Parents	4
The Influence of Work–Family Conflict on Parental Burnout in China: Moderating Effect of Spousal Support and its Gender Differences	4
How Important Is Early Paternal Engagement? Deriving Longitudinal Measures of Fathers’ Childcare Engagement and Exploring Structural Relationships With Prior Engagement and Employment Hours	4
Parents’ Experiences in the Coming Out Process of LGB Individuals: A Focus on Mothers’ Journeys	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