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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Attitudes Toward Heterosexual and Lesbian Stepmothers: An Experimental Test in the Italian Context	28
Is it an Impossible Task? Exploring the Lived Experiences of Christian Parents With Young Children in the UK	23
The Role of Adverse Childhood Experiences in the Trajectories to Adulthood of Chinese Youth: A Retrospective Study	23
Feminist Mothering and Primary Prevention of Gendered Violence: Insights From Australian Mothers Raising Sons	18
Parental Recollections of Bullying	15
The Effect of Maternal Parenting Attitudes on Family Functioning	13
Advice for New Stepparents From the Perspective of Stepchildren Who Experienced Stepfamily Formation During Adolescence	13
Latent Class of Child-Rearing Values and Their Relationships With Fertility	12
Parenting Immigrants: Understanding How Family Relationships Impact the Wellbeing of Older Chinese Immigrants Living on the Gold Coast, Australia	11
Mothering Black Adolescents: Personal and Adolescent-Experienced Racial Discrimination, Superwoman Schema, and Black American Mothers’ Mental Health	11
Educational Assortative Mating and Its Impact on Marital Quality in China	11
Through Their Eyes: “My Mother Hit Me Because I’m a Girl…” The Looking-Glass Self and Parents’ Perception of Childhood Maltreatment	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
Infidelity and Anger within Incarcerated Couples: A Brief Report	10
Navigating Parenthood in the Pandemic: Revealing the Trade-offs of Childcare Choices Through Conjoint Analysis	10
“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
Will Adults’ Happiness be Affected by Childhood Parental Divorce? Evidence From China	10
Grandparenting and Well-Being of the Elderly in China	10
Presence Matters: Perceptions of Emotional and Social Involvement of Black Fathers	10
It’s the Thought that Counts: Pregnancy Intention and Relationship Stressors Across SES	10
Mothers and Others: How Collective Strategies Reproduce Social Norms Around Motherhood	10
Imbalanced Sex Ratios and Marital Transitions in Mexico	10
How Parents Play: Play Style as a Function of Gender of Parent, Gender of Child, and Play Context	9
Acculturation and Resilience Influences from the Latino Fathers’ Perspective	9

Parental Alienating Behaviours Experienced by Alienated Grandparents	9
Coparenting Quality During COVID-19: Exploring Gender Differences Using a Mixed Methods Approach	9
Reasons and Future Plans of Couples Who Experienced Infidelity and Stayed Together	9
Early Life Family Care for and With Migrants: The Development of a Transcultural Transition Mentoring Competence Profile	9
When Working From Home Fails to Support Work–Life Balance: The Role of Childcare- and Work-Related Demands	9
“Mature Enough to Handle it?”: Gendered Parental Interventions in and Adolescents’ Reactions to Technology Use During the Pandemic	9
The Racialization of Latino Families	8
A Hybrid Model for the Intergenerational Relationship Between Maternal Poverty and Their Young Adult Child’s Self-Esteem	8
Portraits of Life After Loss: Understanding Parental Loss Within A Social Context	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	8
The Inverse Association Between Number of Siblings and Divorce: New Evidence From China and Europe	8
Perspectives on Sexual Socialization from a Sample of Black Heterosexual College Women	7
Attitudes and Feelings Among Married Mothers and Single Mothers by Choice During the Covid-19 Crisis	7
A Qualitative Study on How Caribbean Coparents Navigate Communication After Divorce and Separation	7
“Once You Become a Parent, You are a Parent Forever”: An Examination of Memorable Messages About Having Children and Becoming a Parent	7
Understanding Military Motherhood: How the Armed Forces’ Childcare and Family Leave Policies Impact Servicewomen with Young Children	7
‘It’s Nothing Serious I Suppose’ Family Help-Seeking for Adolescent Social Anxiety	7
Exploring Linkages Between Mother–Child and Sibling Relationship Quality and Prosocial Behavior Between School-Aged and Adolescent Siblings	7
Racial Disparity in Parenting Practice Among Parents With Young Children	7
“I Would Like to, But My World Wouldn’t End If I Didn’t”: Marital Aspirations Among Sexual Minority Young Adults	7
Father Involvement in Asian Families: A Systematic Literature Review	7
Ready for Parenthood? On Intensive Parenting Ideals and Fertility	7
International Displacement and Family Stress in Latin America	7
‘We Call It the Square Au Pair’. Exploring Working Mothers’ Experiences of Using Digital Devices as ‘Babysitters’	7
Parents’ Family Coping Strategies during the Pandemic: Effects on Parent and Child Well-Being	6
Quality and Quantity of Grandparent Contact: Associations with Late Adolescents’ Psychological Adjustment	6
Socialization Past and Present: Intergenerational Transmission of Parenting Behaviors in Multispecies Families	6
Men’s Marriage Trends in Asia: Changes and Continuities	6
Lower-Income Nonresident Fathers’ Self-Perceptions About Their Parenting Quality and Relationships With Children	6
Vulnerability of Poverty between Male and Female Headed Household in Tanzania	6
Exploring the Psychosocial Experiences of Within the Family Adoptees: An initiative for Mental Well-Being	6
Motherhood and Childfree Choice: Accounts of Indian Childfree Women	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
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
Toward a Transition Transaction Theory: Understanding the Father–Child Relationship	6
Trends in the Prevalence of Childfree Women in the Philippines, 1993–2022	6
Macro-Level Correlates of Early Marriage in Asia	6
A Sense of Connectedness in Reproductive Donation. Contrasting Policy With Donor and Donor Kin Lived Experience	6
The Long-Term Impact of Family Experiences in Adolescence on Mother–Child Relationships in Early Adulthood	6
The Impact of Financial Capability on Household Economic Resilience: Perspectives and Insights From China	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
The Heterogeneous Effect of Parental Investment on Old-Age Support: Only Children As the Main Caregivers in China	5
Differences in Life Satisfaction and Emotions by Romantic Coupling and Sexual Orientation	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
Coparenting, Couple Conflict, Social Support, and Relationship Quality: A Dyadic Exploration of Couples From LIEM Backgrounds	5
Single Motherhood and Stress in a Kenyan Slum: The Importance of Paternal and Kin Support	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
Are You Satisfied? Examining Positive Interaction and Satisfaction in Romantic Relationships	5
Singleness and the Pandemic Dating Recession	4
Filial Piety, Intimacy, and Inter-Generational Contract: Understanding the Family Support to Rural Empty-Nest Older Parents in China	4
Refugees, Family Dynamics, and Resilience: Integrating Systemic Disruptions and Individual Coping Mechanisms	4
Family Relationships and Young Italian Adults’ Well-Being: The Mediation Role of Mattering	4
Parents’ Experiences in the Coming Out Process of LGB Individuals: A Focus on Mothers’ Journeys	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
What Happens When Family is Forced Together: Conflict, Intimacy, and Distance in Queer and Trans Youth’s Family Relations During the Pandemic	4
A Deeper Understanding of the Relationship between Family of Origin and Young Adult Cyber Dating Abuse: A Mediation Model	4
“Going-With-The-Flow” or “Getting-Things-Done”: A Folk Model of Intensive Parenting Among Middle-Class Parents	4
Exploring Civil Partnership From the Perspective of Those in Mixed-Sex Relationships: Embracing a Clean Slate of Equality	4
Abdication of Responsibility for Father–Child Contact in a Group of Black South African Non-resident Father Families: A Systems Perspective	4
Siblinghood Amongst Older Adults: What Being a Sibling or Having Siblings Means	4
Effects of Intimate Partner Violence Prevention Programming on Social Support, Coparenting, and Parenting Among Teen Parents: A Pilot Study	4
Fatherlessness: Black Jamaican Mothers’ Perspectives	4
Financial Stress, Family, Marital, and Life Satisfaction of Turkish Families During Covid-19: What Did We Learn?	4
Are Intensive Parenting Attitudes Internationally Generalizable? The Case of Sweden	4
Social Capital, Families, Friendships, and Inter-generational Mobility	4
The Influence of Work–Family Conflict on Parental Burnout in China: Moderating Effect of Spousal Support and its Gender Differences	4
Balancing Work and Care: Exploring the Effects of Women’s Paid Employment on Children’s Development	4
Women’s Attitudes Toward Intimate Partner Violence in Sindh, Pakistan: An Analysis of Multiple Indicators Cluster Survey	4
The Moderating Role of Parent–Grandparent Co-Parenting in Parental Stress and Mental Health	4
Gender Equality in the Division of Housework and Fertility Intentions in Canada: The Moderating Effect of Employment and Education	4
Marital Satisfaction and Dissatisfaction Among Ghanaians	4