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Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Family Studies is 1. 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Children in dual-residence arrangements: a literature review	28
Staying with the conflict – parenting work and the social organization of post-divorce conflict	14
Transnational parenting in settled families: social class, migration experiences and child rearing among Polish migrants in Germany	13
Psychometric properties of the CESD, STAI-T, and PSS among parents of children with mental illness	13
A qualitative exploration of Black women’s familial socialization on controlling images of Black womanhood and the internalization of respectability politics	13
A systematic review of the literature on transnational caregiving: immigrant adult children to ageing parents in home country	13
Fathers stepping up? A cross-national comparison of fathers’ domestic labour and parents’ satisfaction with the division of domestic labour during the COVID-19 pandemic	13
Representations of parenting and the neo-liberal discourse: parents’ and professionals’ views on child-rearing practices in Italy	12
Supervisory and co-worker support on the work-life balance of working women in the banking sector: a developing country perspective	12
Does women's educational advantage mean a more egalitarian distribution of gender roles? Evidence from dual-earner couples in Spain	11
Trends in parental self-efficacy between 1999 and 2014	11
A meta-analysis examining the relationship between parents’ sexual orientation and children's developmental outcomes	10
Parenting in a pandemic: a qualitative exploration of parents ’ experiences of supporting their children during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Can dimensions of parenting style contribute to self-compassion among South African adolescents?	9
Parents as partners in education during COVID-19-related school closures in England: challenges and opportunities identified by parents with Pakistani and Bangladeshi heritage	9
Adult (step) parent-child relationships in complex families: a latent profile analysis	9
Mothers as teachers to their children: lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Validation and short-form development of Conflict and Problem-solving Strategy Scales	8
Discovered, made visible, constructed, and left out: LGBT+ parenting in the Italian sociological debate	8
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 Ghana	8
The implications of high-conflict divorce on adult–children: Five factors related to well-being	8
Childhood relationships with parents and attachment as predictors of resilience in young adults	7
The impact of parental and individual factors on school refusal: a multiple-mediation model	7
Displaying intergenerational solidarity on TikTok during the COVID-19 pandemic: understanding the implications in the grandparent-grandchild relationship	7
Parenting stress and life satisfaction in families of children with disabilities: the mediating effect of social support in three Arab speaking countries	6

Patterns of adolescent–parent conflicts over schoolwork in Chinese families	6
Latino gay men’s disclosure of sexual identity to their fathers: a systematic review	6
Resistance of women victims of domestic violence in dual-career family: a case from Indonesian society	6
The potential origins and consequences of Chinese youths’ faith in love: filial piety, implicit theories of romantic relationships, and intimacy	6
‘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 Hung	6
Post-separation fatherhood narratives in Germany and Sweden: between caring and protective masculinities	6
Parent–child interactions as predictors of coparenting: A longitudinal study of family subsystems	6
‘The balance in our relationship has changed’: everyday family living, couplehood and digital spaces in informal spousal care	5
Mothers’ parenting stress in Chinese immigrant families: the role of fathers’ involvement and social support	5
Digital and traditional communication with kin: displacement or reinforcement?	5
Evaluation report of early intervention program in situation of child-to-parent abuse: parents and children as participants	5
Chinese parental academic socialization prior to college entrance examination: insights from urban and rural areas	5
Complex but ordinary: intercultural negotiations among mixed families in Australia	5
Family Foundations To promote parent mental health and family functioning during the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia: A mixed methods evaluation	5
Experiences and needs of social support among Thai adolescent fathers: a qualitative study	5
Intergenerational transmission of trauma: unpacking the effects of parental adverse childhood experiences	5
Parenting, loneliness, and stress in Chinese international students: do parents still matter from thousands of miles away?	5
Feasibility and acceptability of an online acceptance and commitment therapy group for parents caring for a child with cerebral palsy	4
Beyond bath bombs: partner’s response to postpartum depression	4
Like parent, like child? The intergenerational transmission of subjective well-being in Hungary	4
Diaspora grand-mothering in Nigeria	4
Risk or fun? Adolescent attitude towards sexting and parental practices	4
Parenting, autonomy and academic achievement in the adolescence	4
Siblings of children diagnosed with cancer: being faced with a moral dilemma	4
A meta-synthesis of care and support for older adults in Africa	4
Stigma, resistance and hope: the experiences of parents of young transgender adults	4
“Equally, but in our own way”: First-time parents’ prenatal expectations of coparenting	4
How a child's gender mediates maternal care and expectations in the fatigue experiences of adolescents with sickle cell disease	4
Negotiating power and relationship throughout marital life: narratives of middle-aged women from Turkey	4
Prevalence and factors associated with intimate partner violence and related injuries in India: evidence from National Family Health Survey-4	4
‘Ordinary’ and ‘diverse’ families. A case study of family discourses by Finnish early childhood education and care administrators	3
Family influence on refugee youth education and employment aspirations and choices	3
Fertility cultures and childbearing desire after the Two-Child Policy: evidence from southwest China	3
Re-defining stigmatization: intersectional stigma of single mothers in Thailand	3
Regretting parenthood in a family friendly, ‘gender equal’ society: accounts from Swedish online forums	3
Physical custody arrangements and fathers’ post-separation well-being	3
Doing intimate family work through ICTs in the time of networked individualism	3
Exploring the lived experience of parental infidelity	3
Relational long-term breastfeeding	3
Single by chance or by choice? The social meanings of singlehood and narratives of choice among unpartnered adults in Israel	3
Motivations for changing fertility plans and behaviours during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy	3
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 societies	3
Lineage difference in grandmothers’ childcare help and mothers’ parenting stress in urban China	2
Maternal control and children’s internalizing and externalizing symptoms in the context of neighbourhood safety: moderating and mediating models	2
Singlehood and childlessness: an age-period-cohort analysis of changing attitudes toward family in Taiwan (2005-2020)	2
‘She’s Like Family’: transnational Filipino families, voluntary kin and the circulation of care	2
Unemployment and domestic work in Spain: did the 2007 economic crisis affect gender equality in the household?	2
Estimating the prevalence of children living with a stepparent in New Zealand using linked administrative, census, and survey data	2
Unravelling the tensions: exploring the interplay of paid care work, family obligations, and transnational care among Zimbabwean migrant care workers in the UK	2
Young people’s reflections on their experiences of shared care and relationships with their parents	2

‘We also need to exist somehow’ – families negotiating everyday ethics during Covid-19 in Denmark	2
‘Your fatty bum is really ugly!’ Gender, fat-shaming, and beauty-related tensions in contemporary Taiwanese families	2
Attitudes towards multi-child families and their relationship with fertility preferences and other characteristics	2
Health and psychological distress implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for single mothers in Israel	2
Does Facebook ‘threaten’ romantic relationships? Online surveillance and couple visibility behaviours in romantic jealousy and couple relationship quality in a sample of Italian women	2
Being a child in the family: young children describe themselves and their parents	2
The utility of the Positive Parenting Program (Triple P) for refugee background parents	2
Gender differences in marital satisfaction across cultural contexts: does ‘knowing one’s spouse’s friends’ matter?	2
Coparenting and parental involvement in education: the mediating role of motivational beliefs	2
Family formation trends and patterns of women's work trajectories in South Korea: determinants and cohort differences	2
Housework and earnings: intrahousehold evidence from Latin America	2
Resiliency perspectives among older siblings of children with significant disabilities	2
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’	2
A time to be silent and a time to speak: intergenerational family narrative and father loss before birth	2
Factors affecting the length of unpaid parental leave in Spain	2
Caring masculinities? Teenage fathers in South Africa	2
Disentangling the link between having one child and partnership trajectories: a mixed-methods life-course research	1
Grappling with tradition: the experiences of cisgender, heterosexual mothers and fathers in elective co-parenting arrangements	1
Parents’ perspectives on smartphone acquisition amongst 9- to 12-year-old children in the UK – a behaviour change approach	1
‘Never time to do anything well’: mothers’ reported constraints during a pandemic	1
‘Undoing gender’ or selection effects?: fathers’ uptake of leave and involvement in housework and childcare in South Korea	1
Exploring the caring of fathers in low-income, rural communities in South Africa	1
‘Are we falling apart?’: manufacturing familyhood through transnationalism	1
Perceptions of parenting among parents who regret having a child: a mixed-methods study	1
Making meaning by sacrifice – self and relationship commitment in Finnish spouses and partners of people with mental illness	1
Accepting social support in single-parent families in Belgium	1
Marital stress and emotion work in same-sex and different-sex marriages: the moderating role of childhood adversity	1
The central European world of fatherhood policies: how individual attitudes mediate the norm of threeness in the Czech Republic and Slovakia	1
A qualitative exploration of the parenting experiences of ex-military fathers diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)	1
Promoting father engagement among low-income fathers: fathers’ narratives on what matters in a fatherhood programme in the western US	1
Age composition of young children and parental well-being in Japan	1
Through ‘thick and thin’ as long as it is healthy: shared meanings of commitment in long-term couple relationships, whether married or not	1
Enabling family policies, changing gender norms: increasing childcare and housework among Norwegian fathers from 1980–2010	1
Perceptions of parents of youth with disabilities toward school-based parent engagement	1
More dedicated, more loyal : young men redefining fathering roles and expectations	1
Meeting online and family-related outcomes: evidence from three German cohorts	1
Transgenerational discourses of gender among Polish psychotherapists: An exploratory study	1
Forgotten voices: the plight of prisoners’ families	1
How do family adversity and youth stressful experiences lead to adult economic adversity? An integration of multiple life course mechanisms	1
‘We were actually able to sit down and talk’: Australian parents and practitioners navigating dynamics of power and emotion in Family Dispute Resolution	1
Flying families between the UK and Nepal: compromised intergenerational care amidst a restrictive migration policy context	1
‘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) children	1
Gender-open grandparenting: an exploratory study	1
Too educated to be married? An investigation into the relationship between education and marriage in China	1
New practices during the pandemic? A qualitative study of parents’ work, care and housework during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Breaking with traditions? How parental separation affects adolescents’ gender ideologies in the UK	1
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 Poland	1
Child sexual abuse prevention – the strategies of protective mothers and fathers: a systematic review	1
Risk factors for materialistic attitudes and values of teenagers – role of parents and peers	1
Changing fatherhood: a comparative study of Sweden, Germany and Japan	1
Raising teenage children in disadvantaged neighbourhoods: the experiences and challenges of immigrant mothers in Sweden	1
Closeness in father-adolescent daughter relationships: a South African study	1
Pre-Separation family relationships and post-separation involvement among nonresident fathers in the United States	1
Care leavers’ notions of the ‘ideal’ family in Zimbabwe	1
Satisfaction with work–family roles and the relationship with working parents’ life satisfaction: a cross-disciplinary perspective	1
Similarities and differences between coparenting and parental gatekeeping: implications for father involvement research	1