OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Families Relationships and Societies 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Creating online participatory research spaces: insights from creative, digitally mediated research with children during the COVID-19 pandemic	20
The shame and shaming of parents in the child protection process: findings from a case study of an English child protection service	17
Helicopter parenting and female university students’ anxiety: does parents’ gender matter?	13
When equal partners become unequal parents: couple relationships and intensive parenting culture	13
Disguised compliance or undisguised nonsense? A critical discourse analysis of compliance and resistance in social work practice	13
‘She has mellowed me into the idea of SPL’: unpacking relational resources in UK couples’ discussions of Shared Parental Leave take-up	12
Negotiating parenting practices: the arguments and justifications of Finnish couples	10
Care is not a tally sheet: rethinking the field of gender divisions of domestic labour with care-centric conceptual narratives	8
‘Er, not the best time’: methodological and ethical challenges of researching family life during a pandemic	8
Displaying parenthood, (un)doing gender: parental leave, daycare and working-time adjustments in Sweden and the UK	7
Participant pseudonyms in qualitative family research: a sociological and temporal note	7
Introduction to special issue: relationality in family and intimate practices	7
Being a good digital parent: representations of parents, youth and the parent–youth relationship in expert advice	6
Yang sheng, care and changing family relations in China: about a ‘left-behind’ mother’s diet	6
“I thought, Oh shit, because I was 19.” Discourses and practices on young fatherhood in Denmark	5
A within-cultural comparison of filial piety beliefs among college students in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau	5
How involved are involved fathers in Hungary? Exploring caring masculinities in a post-socialist context	5
Guiding the young child: trajectories of parents’ educational work in Singapore	4
Motivations and reactions to social undervaluation of single people in married society: an Indonesian perspective	4
Relationality and linked lives during transitions to parenthood in Europe: an analysis of institutionally framed work-care divisions	4
Unclear endings: difficult friendships and the limits of the therapeutic ethic	4
Resisting the commodification of intimate life? Paternal love, emotional bordering and narratives of ambivalent family consumerism from Scottish and Romanian fathers	4
Becoming primary caregivers? Unemployed fathers caring alone in Spain	4
Decolonising research with black communities: developing equitable and ethical relationships between academic and community stakeholders	4
Gendering the job demands-resources model: work–family conflict in Taiwan	4

Tracing pathways of relatedness: how identity-release gamete donors negotiate biological (non-)parenthood	3
Involving fathers in family social services in Israel: in the shadow of a conflicted policy	3
A death in the family: experiences of dying and death in which everyday family practices are embedded and enacted	3
Karen Barad’s posthumanist relational ontology: an intra-active approach to theorising and studying family practices	3
Mothering practices across three generations of Chinese women: from liberated woman, virtuous wife and good mother, to intensive full-time mother	3
A systematic review of family and social relationships: implications for sex trafficking recruitment and victimisation	3
Displaying morally responsible motherhood: lone mothers accounting for work during non-standard hours	3
Testing the social exclusivity of marriage thesis in the context of high familism: do social involvement and support vary by marital status in Israel?	3
(No) recourse to lunch: a frontline view of free school meals and immigration control during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Postponing the day of your dreams? Modern weddings and the impact of COVID-19	3
Out-of-place: the lack of engagement with parent networks of caregiving fathers of young children	3
The experience of qualitative research with young fathers: considerations of gender, class and reflexive practice	3
Longing for interdependence, aspiring to independence: a qualitative study on parenting in Germany	2
Gendered perceptions of workaholism and the gender gap in parenting time	2
How young, disadvantaged fathers are affected by socioeconomic and relational barriers: a UK-based qualitative study	2
Parental leave – and then what? A study of new parents’ negotiations about work, care and parental leave	2
Unsettling maternal futures in climate crisis: towards cohabitability?	2
Doing family while poor: agentic hopelessness as lived knowledge	2
Adoption wars: inequality, child welfare and (social) justice	2
Perceptions of gender equality and engaged fatherhood among young fathers: parenthood and the welfare state in Sweden and the UK	2
Intergenerational transmission of environmental household practices among South Korean families: continuity and change	2
Displaying intimate friendships: Chinese children’s practices of friendships at school	2
Couples’ time management systems: your time, my time or our time?	2
Research relationalities and shifting sensitivities: doing ethnographic research about Brexit and everyday family relationships	2
Beyond the ‘stop gap’: young (adult) women’s experiences of living with parents in the aftermath of the Greek austerity crisis	2
What does Rachel Carson have to do with family sociology and family policies? Ecological imaginaries, relational ontologies, and crossing social imaginaries	2
Knowledge generation and former carers: reflections and ways forward	2
Putting up (with) the paying guest: negotiating hospitality and the boundaries of the commercial home in private lodging arrangements	2
Conscious coupling: loss of public promises of a life-long bond? An exploration of authenticity and autonomy in commitment processes across contemporary long-term relationship forms	2
‘My own blood’: family relationships of unaccompanied asylum-seeking young people in the UK	2
Family practices in non-cohabiting intimate relationships in China: doing mobile intimacy, emotion and intergenerational caring practices	2
Is my best friend toxic? A textual analysis of online advice on difficult relationships	2
Making diversity visible in often unrecognised family practices	1
Family relatedness: a challenge for making decisions in child welfare	1
Instigating father-inclusive practice interventions with young fathers and multi-agency professionals: the transformative potential of qualitative longitudinal and co-creative methodologies	1
Researching parental leave during a pandemic: lessons from black feminist theory and relationality	1
Family practices, deportability and administrative violence: an ethnographic study on asylum seekers’ family life in the Swedish migration context	1
Enemies, allies or citizens? The subject positions of men in the making of birth leave for fathers in Israel	1
Male infertility as relational: an analysis of men’s reported encounters with family members and friends in the context of delayed conception	1
A new vista on Asian families and intimacies: creating common foundations for knowledge production within and on Asia	1
Reordering family practices in an unequal and disorderly world: contemporary adoption and contact in the UK	1
Shifting roles, changing relations: considerations when doing ethnographic research with multiple families	1
Mixed-sex civil partnerships and relationality: a perspective from law	1
Fostering ‘digital citizens’ in Norway: experiences of migrant mothers	1
More than mothers: changing intimacies and relationships among low-income women in Chile	1
A conversation with Pat Armstrong about Creative Teamwork: Developing Rapid Site-Switching Ethnography	1
Names in adoption law and policy: representations of family, rights and identities	1
Family display, family type, or community? Limitations in the application of a concept	1
Good men need to be you dandang: negotiating masculinity in intimate relationships in contemporary China	1
Citizenisation in the aftermath of domestic violence: the role of family, community and social networks	1

Growing together: displaced women’s resilience and growth in reciprocal relationship	1
Attitudes of young people in Germany towards parental involvement in paid work: evidence of intergenerational transmission	1
Parental and work-related identities among primary caregiving and primary breadwinning mothers and fathers	1
Parenting in the pandemic: exploring the experiences of families with children on Universal Credit before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Intimacy, relationality and interdependencies: relationships in families dealing with gambling harms during COVID-19	1
‘Friends are those who can help you out’: unpacking the understanding and experiences of friendship among young migrant workers in China	1
Naming practices in domestic homicide reviews in England and Wales	1
Knowledge forms and gendered moralities in policies of infant care in Brazil	1
Theorising fatherhood: challenges and suggestions	1
‘Never mind, we can’t help you’: young people’s experiences of the imprisonment of a sibling	1
From being ‘at risk’ to being ‘a risk’: journeys into parenthood among young women experiencing adversity	1
Persistent stigma despite social change: experiences of stigma among single women who were pregnant or mothers in the Republic of Ireland 1996–2010	1
Engaging with uncertainty: studying child and family welfare in precarious times	1
“I’m finally allowed to be me”: parent-child estrangement and psychological wellbeing	1
Money practices and couplehood among individuals in the third age in Sweden	1
Family sociology as a theoretical enterprise? A personal reflection	1
Can we go on? Child protection in a broken place	1
A school-based cross-sectional study to understand the public health measures needed to improve the emotional and mental wellbeing of young carers aged 12 to 14 years	1
Readiness parenting: practices of care by parents of children with chronic kidney disease in Portugal	1
Remembering David Morgan	1
Couples’ daily childcare schedules: gendered patterns and variations	1
Challenges in family policy research	1
Paid parental leave and fathers’ involvement: capturing fathers’ gender beliefs and fathering perceptions	1
Caveats and criteria: intercultural courtships of shengnü (‘leftover women’) and Western men in urban China	1
Parents’ social networks, transitional moments and the shaping role of digital communications: an exploratory study in Austria, Denmark, England and Portugal	1
Remembering David Morgan	1