OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Family Issues is 5. 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.)

Article	Citations
Beyond the Economic-Need Hypothesis: A Life-Course Explanation of Women’s Extended Family Living Arrangements in Chile	39
The Cost of “A Better Life”: Children Left Behind—Beyond Ambiguous Loss	34
Parenting Immigrants: Understanding How Family Relationships Impact the Wellbeing of Older Chinese Immigrants Living on the Gold Coast, Australia	27
Attitudes Toward Heterosexual and Lesbian Stepmothers: An Experimental Test in the Italian Context	26
Experiences of Autonomy in Marriage and Divorce Within the Chinese Traditional System	21
Is it an Impossible Task? Exploring the Lived Experiences of Christian Parents With Young Children in the UK	19
Feminist Mothering and Primary Prevention of Gendered Violence: Insights From Australian Mothers Raising Sons	18
Weathering the Storm: Longitudinal Evidence on Women’s Changing Family Relationships During COVID-19	17
The Impact of Physical Health, Race, and Financial Status on Relational Satisfaction	17
The Role of Adverse Childhood Experiences in the Trajectories to Adulthood of Chinese Youth: A Retrospective Study	16
The Remarriage Belief Inventory: A Validation Study in the Remarried Portuguese Population	16
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	15
Parents’ Perceptions of Children’s Behavioral Difficulties and the Parent–Child Interaction During the COVID-19 Lockdown	15
Mental Health Across the Life Course for Men and Women in Married, Cohabiting, and Living Apart Together Relationships	15
Infidelity and Anger within Incarcerated Couples: A Brief Report	15
Grandparenting and Well-Being of the Elderly in China	15
Children’s Contact With Fathers Who Never Co-Resided With Them and Father–Child Relationship Quality at age 9	15
Will Adults’ Happiness be Affected by Childhood Parental Divorce? Evidence From China	13
Does Family Decision-Making Power Improve Women’s Happiness?	13
Measurement Invariance in the Alabama Parenting Questionnaire: Implications for Culturally Inclusive Parenting Research	13
Imbalanced Sex Ratios and Marital Transitions in Mexico	12
How Parents Play: Play Style as a Function of Gender of Parent, Gender of Child, and Play Context	12
Parents’ Perceptions of Education and Culture as a Context of Parental Stress: A Study of Parents of Preschool Children in Hong Kong	12
Caregivers’ Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Their Children’s Behavior	12
Doing Gender with Class: Gender Division of Unpaid Work in Russian Middle-Class Dual Earner Heterosexual Households	11

Parental Alienating Behaviours Experienced by Alienated Grandparents	11
Navigating Parenthood in the Pandemic: Revealing the Trade-offs of Childcare Choices Through Conjoint Analysis	11
Child–Parent Relationships and Older Adults’ Health: A Cross-Cultural Comparison Between China and the United States	11
Parent–Child Leisure and Parent Affect: The Role of Family Structure	11
Mothers and Others: How Collective Strategies Reproduce Social Norms Around Motherhood	11
Sexual Identity in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer or Questioning Emerging Adults: The Role of Parental Rejection, and Sexuality Specific Family Support	11
Preliminary Analysis of the Past and Planned Investments Measure in Turkish Dual-Career Married Individuals	10
Sibling Social Comparison in Mid- to Later Life: Links with Well-Being and Relationship Quality	10
“Mature Enough to Handle it?”: Gendered Parental Interventions in and Adolescents’ Reactions to Technology Use During the Pandemic	10
The Trajectory of Subjective Well-Being: A Partial Explanation of the Marriage Advantage	10
Coparenting Quality During COVID-19: Exploring Gender Differences Using a Mixed Methods Approach	10
Family Communication and Psychological Distress in the Era of COVID-19 Pandemic: Mediating Role of Coping	10
Socio-economic Correlates of Marital Status and Marriage Timing Among Adult Men in Nigeria	9
Academia and Motherhood: A Narrative Inquiry of Ontario Academic Mothers’ Experiences in University Graduate Programs	9
Student Parents or Parent Students in Lockdown Pandemic? A Third Space approach	9
Early Life Family Care for and With Migrants: The Development of a Transcultural Transition Mentoring Competence Profile	9
Foster Caregiver Experiences: Implications for Retention and Satisfaction	9
A Hybrid Model for the Intergenerational Relationship Between Maternal Poverty and Their Young Adult Child’s Self-Esteem	9
Portraits of Life After Loss: Understanding Parental Loss Within A Social Context	9
“I didn’t Even Realize I Agreed to Meet the Child so Rarely.” Negotiations and Parental Desires in LGBTQ Family Forming Processes	9
Attitudes and Feelings Among Married Mothers and Single Mothers by Choice During the Covid-19 Crisis	9
The Inverse Association Between Number of Siblings and Divorce: New Evidence From China and Europe	9
Who You Live With Matters: Living Arrangements and Life Expectancy With the Evidence From Eighteen-Year Follow-Up Data	9
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 India	8
Familial Predictors of Alcohol and Drug Use-Related Problems Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults	8
“She Took Care of Us and She Went Through a Lot”: Emotional Availability, Emotional Support, and Millennials’ Gendered Understandings of Parenting	8
The Racialization of Latino Families	8
‘It’s Nothing Serious I Suppose’ Family Help-Seeking for Adolescent Social Anxiety	8
Symptoms of Anxiety in Mothers During the COVID-19 Lockdown: A Structural Equation Model Approach	8
Perspectives on Sexual Socialization from a Sample of Black Heterosexual College Women	8
Domains of Ongoing Communication Between Former Spouses: Associations With Parenting Stress and Children’s Post-Divorce Well-Being	8
“I Would Like to, But My World Wouldn’t End If I Didn’t”: Marital Aspirations Among Sexual Minority Young Adults	8
International Displacement and Family Stress in Latin America	7
Intimate Partner Violence among Korean Immigrant Women in the United States: Intersectionality of Gender Norms, Immigration, and Socioeconomic Status	7
Quality and Quantity of Grandparent Contact: Associations with Late Adolescents’ Psychological Adjustment	7
How to Find Mr/Miss Right? The Mechanism of Search Among Online Daters in Shanghai	7
Interparental Conflict Across the Early Parenting Period: Evidence From Fathers Participating in an Australian Population-Based Study	7
Parents’ Sleep Across Weekdays and Weekends: The Influence of Work, Housework, and Childcare Time	7
‘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, 1993–2022	7
“Once You Become a Parent, You are a Parent Forever”: An Examination of Memorable Messages About Having Children and Becoming a Parent	7
Physical Activity Among Parents of Children With Disabilities: A Systematic Review	7
Parents’ Family Coping Strategies during the Pandemic: Effects on Parent and Child Well-Being	7
Ready for Parenthood? On Intensive Parenting Ideals and Fertility	7
Loneliness Among Chinese Older Adults: The Role of Grandparenthood and Grandparental Childcare by Gender	7
Exploring the Psychosocial Experiences of Within the Family Adoptees: An initiative for Mental Well-Being	7
Racial Disparity in Parenting Practice Among Parents With Young Children	7
Parental Stress Provoked by Short-Term School Closures During the Second COVID-19 Lockdown	6
Motherhood and Childfree Choice: Accounts of Indian Childfree Women	6

Life Course Statuses and Sibling Relationship Quality during Emerging Adulthood	6
Lower-Income Nonresident Fathers’ Self-Perceptions About Their Parenting Quality and Relationships With Children	6
Family Dynamics in Cross-National Families With Young Children in Singapore	6
Educational Challenges of School-Age Children in Skipped Generation Households in Nigeria	6
Women Caregivers Under the Spanish Autonomy and Dependence System: A New Social Underclass?	6
Macro-Level Correlates of Early Marriage in Asia	6
Differences in Life Satisfaction and Emotions by Romantic Coupling and Sexual Orientation	6
Men’s Marriage Trends in Asia: Changes and Continuities	6
Supporting Children and Kinship Caregivers in the Context of Substance Use Disorder: Perspectives of Key Professionals	6
Exploring Linkages Between Mother–Child and Sibling Relationship Quality and Prosocial Behavior Between School-Aged and Adolescent Siblings	6
The Heterogeneous Effect of Parental Investment on Old-Age Support: Only Children As the Main Caregivers in China	6
Vulnerability of Poverty between Male and Female Headed Household in Tanzania	6
Single Motherhood and Stress in a Kenyan Slum: The Importance of Paternal and Kin Support	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
A Sense of Connectedness in Reproductive Donation. Contrasting Policy With Donor and Donor Kin Lived Experience	5
Search and Communication About Origins in Internationally Adopted Young Adults in Spain: A Phenomenological Perspective	5
The Long-Term Impact of Family Experiences in Adolescence on Mother–Child Relationships in Early Adulthood	5
Are You Satisfied? Examining Positive Interaction and Satisfaction in Romantic Relationships	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
Relationship Beliefs and Communication Skills in Turkish Married Individuals: Examining the Mediating Role of Partner Accommodation Behavior and Emotional Dependency	5
The Double-Edged Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Chinese Family Relationships	5
The Influence of Work–Family Conflict on Parental Burnout in China: Moderating Effect of Spousal Support and its Gender Differences	5
Marital Beliefs and Decisions Among Young Chinese Medical Workers	5
Coparenting, Couple Conflict, Social Support, and Relationship Quality: A Dyadic Exploration of Couples From LIEM Backgrounds	5
COVID-19 and Parental Burnout: Parents Locked Down but Not More Exhausted	5
Longitudinal Psychological Family Studies in Austria: A Scoping Review	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	5
‘It’s a Man’s Job’: Doing Gender and Male Gatekeeping in the Division of Household Labor	5
Exploring Civil Partnership From the Perspective of Those in Mixed-Sex Relationships: Embracing a Clean Slate of Equality	5
Families in Multi-Problem Situations in India: Exploration From the Fifth Round of the National Family Health Survey	5
How Does Law Prescribe Circulation of Children? Understanding Different Kinds of Movement Within the Adoption Law in India	5
The Impact of Paternity Leave Compared to Unemployment on Child Care and Housework Distribution in Spain	5
Parental Mediation of Cell Phone Use and Adolescent Autonomy	5
Social Support and Quality of Life Among People Living With HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in Ghana	5
Are Intensive Parenting Attitudes Internationally Generalizable? The Case of Sweden	5
Abdication of Responsibility for Father–Child Contact in a Group of Black South African Non-resident Father Families: A Systems Perspective	5
Women’s Attitudes Toward Intimate Partner Violence in Sindh, Pakistan: An Analysis of Multiple Indicators Cluster Survey	5