Journal of Family Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Family Studies is 0. 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.)
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Caring masculinities? Teenage fathers in South Africa13
Parental logic among Russian-speaking two-step migrants13
Defining transnational families across countries and time: an analysis of academic discourse on the phenomenon between 2003 and 202313
Taking turns: lesbian couples’ decision of (first) birth mother in Sweden13
Coparenting and parental involvement in education: the mediating role of motivational beliefs12
Diaspora grand-mothering in Nigeria12
Resilience concordance in Chinese mother–child dyads: moderating effect of depressive symptoms12
Negotiating power and relationship throughout marital life: narratives of middle-aged women from Turkey11
Siblings of children diagnosed with cancer: being faced with a moral dilemma11
Concerted cultivation and parental satisfaction: a profile analysis via principal component analysis10
Individual, family and neighbourhood factors related to life satisfaction and perceived discrimination among low-income, non-immigrant mothers in seven European countries9
Gender role shift: implications for balancing work and family responsibilities among female primary school teachers in Nigeria9
Does routine communication predict marital satisfaction? Between- and within-person effects8
Exploring the lived experience of parental infidelity8
What’s culture got to do with it? Latino gay men’s perception of their coming out experience8
More dedicated, more loyal : young men redefining fathering roles and expectations8
Young people’s reflections on their experiences of shared care and relationships with their parents8
‘The family administrator’: women take most responsibility for information-seeking, planning and administration of parental benefit in Sweden7
A meta-synthesis of care and support for older adults in Africa6
‘We also need to exist somehow’ – families negotiating everyday ethics during Covid-19 in Denmark6
‘In our family, we don’t watch those things’: parents’ discursive constructions of decision-making connected with family media practices6
‘I am a different father’. An intergenerational analysis of the social transformation of fatherhood in the Islamic Republic of Iran6
Good normative parenting: towards a non-teleological and relational ideal6
Family framing in Romania after EU accession: an analysis of silenced problems within strategic policy documents6
Women’s domestic multitasking: the phenomenon of feminization of unpaid work in Polish households during the COVID-19 pandemic5
Lineage difference in grandmothers’ childcare help and mothers’ parenting stress in urban China5
Risk factors for materialistic attitudes and values of teenagers – role of parents and peers5
Latino gay men’s disclosure of sexual identity to their fathers: a systematic review5
Introducing dadness4
The challenges and needs of male victims of intimate partner violence in Nigeria: what victims and professionals say4
Black women caregivers’ homeplace fortification in response to negative news media4
The benefits of intergenerational co-residence: reconsidering the effects of women’s education on their housework hours in urban China4
Prevalence and factors associated with intimate partner violence and related injuries in India: evidence from National Family Health Survey-44
Internal migration in Chile and the psychosocial well-being of families-of-origin4
Doing family in three – two partners and an animal companion3
Parents living in poverty and the welfare system: the conditions for trust3
The loss of a grandchild during pregnancy: an exploration of long-term outcomes for grandparents and their families3
Mothers’ parenting stress in Chinese immigrant families: the role of fathers’ involvement and social support3
The potential origins and consequences of Chinese youths’ faith in love: filial piety, implicit theories of romantic relationships, and intimacy3
The family transmission of prejudice toward immigrants. The mediating role of adolescents’ self-transcendence and conservation values3
Growing up poor(ly): intergenerational class-based parenting logic in Singapore3
High rates of stability in post-separation care arrangements: examining prevalence and predictors in Germany3
Gender differences in marital satisfaction across cultural contexts: does ‘knowing one’s spouse’s friends’ matter?3
Work-parenthood conflicts at the operator and professional levels in Chile’s mining industry: a gender analysis3
Differences in the evaluation and satisfaction with foster care between kinship and non-kin foster carers2
Equal sharing or not at all caring? Ideals about fathers’ family involvement and the prevalence of the second half of the gender revolution in 27 societies2
Doing intimate family work through ICTs in the time of networked individualism2
Navigating father-child relationships in single mother families: an exploratory narrative analysis2
Enabling family policies, changing gender norms: increasing childcare and housework among Norwegian fathers from 1980–20102
Factors affecting the length of unpaid parental leave in Spain2
Trapped in a maze: how social control institutions drive family poverty and inequality Trapped in a maze: how social control institutions drive family poverty and inequality 2
Like parent, like child? The intergenerational transmission of subjective well-being in Hungary2
Re-defining stigmatization: intersectional stigma of single mothers in Thailand2
‘Undoing gender’ or selection effects?: fathers’ uptake of leave and involvement in housework and childcare in South Korea2
Supervisory and co-worker support on the work-life balance of working women in the banking sector: a developing country perspective2
Parent–child interactions as predictors of coparenting: A longitudinal study of family subsystems2
How mothers manage and make sense of their early adolescent’s interactive screen use: an IPA study in the UK2
How a child's gender mediates maternal care and expectations in the fatigue experiences of adolescents with sickle cell disease2
Parents’ perspectives on smartphone acquisition amongst 9- to 12-year-old children in the UK – a behaviour change approach2
Does what the man studies affect what he does at home? Field of education and gender division of housework and childcare in Norway, Austria and Poland2
Working-class Palestinian mothers in Israel: agency, habitus, and maternal responsibility2
A meta-analysis examining the relationship between parents’ sexual orientation and children's developmental outcomes1
A time to be silent and a time to speak: intergenerational family narrative and father loss before birth1
Gender equality as attitude or context: what matters for fertility ideals?1
Family experiences with professionals’ health care attention during end-of-life care at home: a narrative study1
Motivations for changing fertility plans and behaviours during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy1
The flexibility paradox: why flexible working leads to (self-)exploitation1
Promoting father engagement among low-income fathers: fathers’ narratives on what matters in a fatherhood programme in the western US1
Conceptual evolution of parental involvement in a developing context: insights from Türkiye1
Testing the impact of orphan status, illness in the household, and a child's relationship to the household head on wasting in Nigeria: implications for Hamilton's rule1
A qualitative exploration of Black women’s familial socialization on controlling images of Black womanhood and the internalization of respectability politics1
Book Review of Banerjee, Pallavi. 2022 Book Review of Banerjee, Pallavi. 2022 . The Opportunity Trap: High Skilled Workers, Indian Families, and the Failu1
A qualitative exploration of the parenting experiences of ex-military fathers diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)1
Transnational parenting in settled families: social class, migration experiences and child rearing among Polish migrants in Germany1
A conceptual model of parenting children with disabilities1
Adult (step) parent-child relationships in complex families: a latent profile analysis1
Unravelling the tensions: exploring the interplay of paid care work, family obligations, and transnational care among Zimbabwean migrant care workers in the UK1
Intimacy and self-disclosure in Ghanaian in-law relationships1
‘Making vulnerability’ while negotiating family care practices: evidence from multigenerational living1
Cisgender men’s narratives about their desires to be pregnant: re/constructing reproduction, gender, and their entanglement1
The implications of high-conflict divorce on adult–children: Five factors related to well-being1
Risk or fun? Adolescent attitude towards sexting and parental practices1
Culture and parenting: Polish migrant parents’ perspectives on how culture shapes their parenting in a culturally diverse Irish neighbourhood1
Attachment parenting in Greece: a ‘mothers’ only’ affair?1
Has ‘Nordic Turn’ in Japan crystalized?: politics of promoting parental leave take-up among fathers and the divergence from the Nordic system1
Intergenerational transmission of trauma: unpacking the effects of parental adverse childhood experiences1
Fertility cultures and childbearing desire after the Two-Child Policy: evidence from southwest China1
Fathers stepping up? A cross-national comparison of fathers’ domestic labour and parents’ satisfaction with the division of domestic labour during the COVID-19 pandemic1
Grappling with tradition: the experiences of cisgender, heterosexual mothers and fathers in elective co-parenting arrangements1
Contextualizing the work-family experiences of women in the Nigerian banking industry1
The utility of the Positive Parenting Program (Triple P) for refugee background parents1
Too educated to be married? An investigation into the relationship between education and marriage in China1
Estimating the prevalence of children living with a stepparent in New Zealand using linked administrative, census, and survey data1
Transition to grandparenthood and early retirement in midlife1
Gender-open grandparenting: an exploratory study1
Attitudes towards multi-child families and their relationship with fertility preferences and other characteristics0
An examination of mothers’ sensemaking of ‘mommy drinking culture’0
Perceptions of parents of youth with disabilities toward school-based parent engagement0
New practices during the pandemic? A qualitative study of parents’ work, care and housework during the COVID-19 pandemic0
‘I don't know if I want to have children at some point’: meanings of parenthood and reproductive decisions0
Parents as partners in education during COVID-19-related school closures in England: challenges and opportunities identified by parents with Pakistani and Bangladeshi heritage0
“Equally, but in our own way”: First-time parents’ prenatal expectations of coparenting0
The role of family in Chinese international student mobility under the COVID-19 pandemic0
Race, class, parenting and children’s leisure: children’s leisurescapes and parenting cultures in middle-class British Indian families0
Representations of parenting and the neo-liberal discourse: parents’ and professionals’ views on child-rearing practices in Italy0
Motherhood, role conflict, and identity: South African mothers’ experiences amid a pandemic0
A systematic review of the literature on transnational caregiving: immigrant adult children to ageing parents in home country0
Family migration in Chinese superstar cities: are fertility intentions of migrants affected by co-resident parents?0
Queer stepfamilies: the path to social and legal recognition Queer stepfamilies: the path to social and legal recognition , by Katie L. Acosta, New York, NY, New York Un0
Does women's educational advantage mean a more egalitarian distribution of gender roles? Evidence from dual-earner couples in Spain0
Breaking with traditions? How parental separation affects adolescents’ gender ideologies in the UK0
Physical custody arrangements and fathers’ post-separation well-being0
Dynamisms of romantic family imaginaries and asexual identity-making0
Exploring the roles of fathers from the perspective of informal women workers: a longitudinal mixed methods study from Durban, South Africa0
Towards a fuller understanding of the healing of childhood parental wounds: an international study of adult children’s forgiveness. ‘No matter how deep the hurt’0
Mothers as teachers to their children: lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic0
Grandmother kinship carers: negotiating conflicts in identity, blame, loss and love in the context of ‘mother blame’0
‘The balance in our relationship has changed’: everyday family living, couplehood and digital spaces in informal spousal care0
Family and social networks among older people in selected European countries0
Digital and traditional communication with kin: displacement or reinforcement?0
Changing fatherhood: a comparative study of Sweden, Germany and Japan0
Marital stress and emotion work in same-sex and different-sex marriages: the moderating role of childhood adversity0
Health and psychological distress implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for single mothers in Israel0
Challenges of preterm families: parenthood and participation in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in Northern Italy0
Coping with the absence of parents: growing up in military families in Slovenia0
Changes over 15 years in lone parenting of Irish persons with intellectual disability0
Stigma, resistance and hope: the experiences of parents of young transgender adults0
‘The care crisis within’: gender division of labour and care work in middle-class families in Kerala during the pandemic0
Becoming a birth mother in the context of a planned same-sex family: ‘As amazing as it is, it’s kind of a tough road to navigate’0
Living the clash within: secular/conservative divide of immigrant Turkish parents on the identity formations of British Turks0
‘The children, the family, the household, and myself, these made the quarantine up for me, and I was really happy with it’ – positive evaluations of the first COVID-19 lockdown among middle-class Hung0
A dyadic study of the spouses’ assessment of the division of domestic labour and marital satisfaction0
Forgotten voices: the plight of prisoners’ families0
Validation and short-form development of Conflict and Problem-solving Strategy Scales0
Post-separation fatherhood narratives in Germany and Sweden: between caring and protective masculinities0
Transgenerational discourses of gender among Polish psychotherapists: An exploratory study0
The correlates of childrearing marital conflict in Mexico according to urban women parenting preschoolers0
Early maternal work and child vocabulary development: evidence from Ethiopia0
Accepting social support in single-parent families in Belgium0
How do family adversity and youth stressful experiences lead to adult economic adversity? An integration of multiple life course mechanisms0
‘No more secrets, it’s over!’: small stories about late adoption disclosure of Chilean adults0
Parenting in a pandemic: a qualitative exploration of parents experiences of supporting their children during the COVID-19 pandemic0
Parent abuse by dependent adult children living in the family home: a gap in the service?0
African single mothers and their children in Canada: transnational experiences and sources of support0
Family formation trends and patterns of women's work trajectories in South Korea: determinants and cohort differences0
Similarities and differences between coparenting and parental gatekeeping: implications for father involvement research0
Muggle, Juggle, Snuggle, and Struggle: profiles of parenting experiences of mothers and fathers in South Korea during the COVID-19 pandemic0
Ireland’s paternity leave: sluggish benefit take-up and occupational inequalities0
Family influence on refugee youth education and employment aspirations and choices0
COVID-19’s silver linings: exploring the impacts of work–family enrichment for married working mothers during and after the COVID-19 partial lockdown in Ghana0
Chinese parental academic socialization prior to college entrance examination: insights from urban and rural areas0
‘Ordinary’ and ‘diverse’ families. A case study of family discourses by Finnish early childhood education and care administrators0
‘She’s Like Family’: transnational Filipino families, voluntary kin and the circulation of care0
The involution of middle-class tiger moms? An exploration of parental expectations in a Coastal Region of China0
Uncertain safety: uncovering the religious racial socialization process among Muslim American families during the 2016 election0
‘It is an endless love that makes you think only of his well-being’ – the experiences and accounts of ‘motherly love’ among Israeli mothers with transgender (trans) children0
Relational long-term breastfeeding0
‘If I had a job, I’d pay somebody to look after my child’. The practices and discourses of Spanish fathers experiencing periods of unemployment0
Joint physical custody and mothers’ life satisfaction in Belgium, Finland, and Germany0
Family Foundations To promote parent mental health and family functioning during the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia: A mixed methods evaluation0
A decolonizing, intersectional, Black feminist approach to young Black Caribbean-Canadian mothers’ resilience0
Father involvement and gender equality in the United States: contemporary norms and barriers Father involvement and gender equality in the United States: contemporary norms and barriers0
Closeness in father-adolescent daughter relationships: a South African study0
Passenger parenting, role conflict and guilt: the transition to parenthood from new and experienced fathers0
Shifting worlds of father politics? Comparing path-departing change in paternity and parental leave policy in Germany and the UK0
‘We were actually able to sit down and talk’: Australian parents and practitioners navigating dynamics of power and emotion in Family Dispute Resolution0
Perceptions of parenting among parents who regret having a child: a mixed-methods study0
Judges’ perspectives on changes in the legal minimum age at marriage in Indonesia0
Father knows best? Chinese parents’ perceptions of their influence on child development0
All hands on deck: exploring how Latinx families in California supported child learning during the initial Covid-19 shutdown0
Discrepancies in parents’ perceptions of adult children’s well-being: evidence from mother–father–child triads0
Raising teenage children in disadvantaged neighbourhoods: the experiences and challenges of immigrant mothers in Sweden0
Housework and earnings: intrahousehold evidence from Latin America0
Composition of Ukrainian households under forced migration and its impact on livelihood opportunities at early stage of stay in Krakow0
(Grand)childlessness and depression across men and women’s stages of later life0
Understanding the perceptions of low-income American working mothers in rural areas: exploratory analysis of relative care0
Religious-spiritual coping in family caregivers of Brazilian children and adolescents with cancer0
Trends in parental self-efficacy between 1999 and 20140
Parenting, loneliness, and stress in Chinese international students: do parents still matter from thousands of miles away?0
Frictions between familism and neoliberalism: exploring the intergenerational ambivalence narratives of migrant older parents in China0
Unauthorized Love: Mixed-citizenship couples negotiating intimacy, immigration, and the state Unauthorized Love: Mixed-citizenship couples negotiating intimacy, immigration, and the sta0
A systematic review of intergenerational co-residence between older people and adult children0
Short-term fertility intentions and outcomes: similarities and differences between childless women and mothers0
Through ‘thick and thin’ as long as it is healthy: shared meanings of commitment in long-term couple relationships, whether married or not0
Self or children? Navigating intensive mothering ideology and maternal agency for rural-to-urban migrant working mothers in China0
‘Are we falling apart?’: manufacturing familyhood through transnationalism0
The central European world of fatherhood policies: how individual attitudes mediate the norm of threeness in the Czech Republic and Slovakia0
Beyond what meets the eye: loyalty in adolescents’ accounts of the child-stepparent relationship0
‘Your fatty bum is really ugly!’ Gender, fat-shaming, and beauty-related tensions in contemporary Taiwanese families0
Age composition of young children and parental well-being in Japan0
Fertility intentions of China’s one-child generation: a comparative analysis with the US0
Varieties of socialization goals: a qualitative study of Palestinian mothers from different socio-economic backgrounds0
Discovered, made visible, constructed, and left out: LGBT+ parenting in the Italian sociological debate0
‘Never time to do anything well’: mothers’ reported constraints during a pandemic0
Patterns of adolescent–parent conflicts over schoolwork in Chinese families0
Displaying intergenerational solidarity on TikTok during the COVID-19 pandemic: understanding the implications in the grandparent-grandchild relationship0
Best friends forever and family ties: continuity and change in closeness with parents and friends among Australian adolescents0
A happy mother raises a happy child: insights from employed mothers in Bengali families in Kolkata0
Differences in economic consequences of union dissolution across gender and ethnic groups in Belgium and Israel0
Wives’ enduring responsibility? The exercises and outcomes of gender power in urban Chinese families0
Satisfaction with work–family roles and the relationship with working parents’ life satisfaction: a cross-disciplinary perspective0
Care leavers’ notions of the ‘ideal’ family in Zimbabwe0
Exploring the caring of fathers in low-income, rural communities in South Africa0
Singlehood and childlessness: an age-period-cohort analysis of changing attitudes toward family in Taiwan (2005-2020)0
Flying families between the UK and Nepal: compromised intergenerational care amidst a restrictive migration policy context0
Regretting parenthood in a family friendly, ‘gender equal’ society: accounts from Swedish online forums0
Postmaterialism and voluntary childlessness0
Fatherhood, manhood, and personhood: South African fathers’ experiences of parental identity development0
Re-imagining the surveillance power of the close social network on interracial couples0
Children’s digital practices and family dynamics during the COVID-19 lockdown: contrasting children’s and parents’ perspectives0
In their own voices: immigrant mothers’ experiences and perceptions of the group-based self-assured parents programme for parents in disadvantaged areas in Sweden0
‘Equitable to the extent possible’.The impact of the social-health crisis on the development of coparenting in first-time parental couples.0
Introduction to a special issue in memoriam Michael Rush: the politics of fatherhood around the world0
Father’s parental leave use in Spain: the effect of education in the household0
Does Facebook ‘threaten’ romantic relationships? Online surveillance and couple visibility behaviours in romantic jealousy and couple relationship quality in a sample of Italian women0
East Asian Mothers’ attitudes towards their children’s education in England: dialectics of East Asian and English education0
Parenting stress and life satisfaction in families of children with disabilities: the mediating effect of social support in three Arab speaking countries0
Single by chance or by choice? The social meanings of singlehood and narratives of choice among unpartnered adults in Israel0
Resiliency perspectives among older siblings of children with significant disabilities0
Child sexual abuse prevention – the strategies of protective mothers and fathers: a systematic review0
Pre-Separation family relationships and post-separation involvement among nonresident fathers in the United States0
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