Journal of Marriage and Family

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Marriage and Family 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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Creating Versus Negating Togetherness: Perceptual and Emotional Differences in Parent‐Teenager Reported Time94
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Supervised machine learning for exploratory analysis in family research32
Disentangling between‐ and within‐person variation in relationship science29
Intersectional bonds: Delinquency, arrest, and changing family social capital during adolescence26
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Between‐firm sorting and parenthood wage gaps in the US service sector24
Other adults in the United States: Improving survey measures of youths' non‐parental adult relationships24
Mothering in the streets: Familial adaptation strategies of street‐identified Black American mothers20
Early‐life disadvantage and parent‐to‐child financial transfers20
Converging mothers' employment trajectories between East and West Germany? A focus on the 2008‐childcare‐reform20
The asymmetric effects of improving and declining marital satisfaction on cognitive function20
The changing face of intimate premarital relationships in Taiwan18
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Cohabiting adult children's transfers to parents in the United States17
Paternal incarceration and children's reading achievement: The role of maternal caregiving quality16
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COVID‐19 and the role of gender, earnings, and telecommuting in parents' employment15
Frontline love: Romantic partners of frontline doctors and nurses during the New York City COVID‐19 outbreak15
Lesbian and heterosexual Spanish and Swedish couples: Division of labor and life‐satisfaction15
When the last child moves out: Continuity and convergence in spouses' housework time14
Temporary Labor Migration and Spouses' Marital Quality: Evidence from Nepal13
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Coparenting profiles and children's socioemotional outcomes in unmarried parents with low‐income13
Revisiting marital health protection: Intraindividual health dynamics around transition to legal marriage12
An intersectional analysis of women's social role engagement and mental health12
My relatives are waiting: Barriers to tribal enrollment of fostered/adopted American Indians12
Converging trends in developmental child care time by fathers' education? Comment on Cha and Park (2021)12
Stepfamily formation and the educational outcomes of children in Sweden12
Family and household sources of poverty for Black, Hispanic, and White newborns12
Adult sibling relationships: The impact of cohabitation, marriage, separation, and childbearing11
Measuring family boundary ambiguity in cohabiting stepfamilies11
Risk tolerance and fertility: Evidence from a lottery question in Italy10
Marital separation, reconciliation, and repartnering in later life10
Work as overload or enhancement for family caregivers of older adults: Assessment of experienced well‐being over the day10
For better or worse: Economic strain, furlough, and relationship quality during the Covid‐19 lockdown10
“Doing authority”: Stories of parental authority across three generations10
Beyond role strain: Work–family sacrifice among underrepresented minority faculty10
Does income moderate basic relationship processes?9
Societal transitions, ethnolinguistic identities, and marital conservatism in Central Asia9
Intergenerational transmission of relationship quality in later‐life families9
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From flexibility to unending availability: Platform workers' experiences of work–family conflict9
The partner market as a resource in couples' bargaining on housework division9
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Latent profiles of Koreans' attitudes toward alternatives to traditional marital formation9
Support matters: How formal and informal institutions shape young Indians' work‐family preferences9
“It changed the atmosphere surrounding the baby I did have”: Making sense of reproduction during the COVID‐19 pandemic8
Maternal exposure to work schedule unpredictability and child behavior8
Young‐age exposure to armed conflict and women's experiences of intimate partner violence8
Latinx LGBTQ+ youth and grandparents: Intergenerational solidarity, precarious familismo, and cisnormativity8
Time cannot heal all wounds: Wealth trajectories of divorcees and the married8
Getting married in a highly individualized context: Commitment and gender equality matter8
How much his or her job loss influences fertility: A couple approach8
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Relationship quality in midlife: A comparison of dating, living apart together, cohabitation, and marriage7
Parental absence during childhood and intergenerational solidarity in adulthood in China7
How intergenerational estrangement matters for maternal and adult children's health7
Qualitative family research: Innovative, flexible, theoretical, reflexive7
Stigma arising from youth police contact: The protective role ofmother–youthcloseness7
Unplanned costs and benefits: Gender and spousal spillover effects of retirement on health7
A typology of US parents' mental loads: Core and episodic cognitive labor7
Methods for studying structural oppression in quantitative family research7
Fairness perceptions of the postdivorce division of childcare and child‐related expenses7
Paternity leave‐taking and early childhood development: A longitudinal analysis in Singapore7
Marital status and happiness during the COVID‐19 pandemic7
What is QuantCrit doing in a nice field like family science?7
Involuntary childlessness in the U.S. and Israel: Pronatalism, gender, and sexual identity6
Incarceration and family instability: Considering relationship churning6
Privileged dependence, precarious autonomy: Parent/young adult relationships through the lens of COVID‐196
Splitting the penalty by taking turns? Same‐sex mothers' earnings losses in Norway6
Mate preferences and marriage‐related behaviors: The case of Japan6
Paternity leave, family dynamics, and children's behavior in Singapore6
Parents' childbearing motivations, parenting, and child adjustment: From pregnancy to20‐monthspostpartum6
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Gender inequality in intergenerational contact after parental separation in the digital era6
Effects of extended paternity leave on family dynamics6
Differences by sexual orientation in romantic relationship attitudes and skills among adolescents6
Corrigendum to “Illuminating associations between parenting and deleterious neighborhood characteristics via exhaustive modeling”6
Beyond motherhood: Childless Black women and compulsory mothering5
Two sides of a coin: The relationship between work autonomy and childbearing5
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The role of family composition in students' learning growth during the COVID‐19 pandemic5
“Normal” childhood in the lives of financially struggling white daughters and mothers5
Minority stress and structural stigma predict well‐being in European LGBTQ+ parents5
Addressing diaper need as racial stratification through intersectional family justice5
Consequences of deferred action for childhood arrivals for parent health: Applying a social foreground perspective5
Familism among Latino/a adolescents: Evidence from time‐use data5
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Attitudes toward same‐sex couple parents: A decade of change5
Social norms, agency, and marriage aspirations in Malawi5
The long‐term effects of formal child support5
Desired fertility and educational aspirations: Adolescent goals in rapidly changing social contexts5
Parenting stress in lockdown: The role of changes in Children's routines and Parents' relationship with live‐in grandparents5
The educational diffusion of divorce: The role of gender and context4
Untangling perceptions of atypical parents4
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“Micro‐cultures” of conflict: Couple‐level perspectives on reasons for and causes of intimate partner violence in young adulthood4
Environmental attitudes and fertility desires among US adolescents from 2005–20194
The role of interparental relationship variability in parent–child interactions: Results from a sample of mothers of children with autism spectrum disorder and mothers with neurotypical children4
Gendered patterns of intergenerational contact in Korea: Transitions from young‐old to middle‐old4
Weekend work and work–family conflict: Evidence from Australian panel data4
Parental burnout and mental health across COVID‐19 parenting circumstances: A person‐centered approach4
Unmarried Americans vote more Democratic than their married counterparts: The role of race and religiosity in the marital gap (a research brief )4
Dyadic employment biographies and within‐couple wealth inequality in Britain and Western Germany4
Stepfamily variation in parent–child relationship quality in later life4
Assessing the deinstitutionalization of marriage thesis: Changes in the meaning of cohabitation over the relationship life course4
Unpacking power dynamics and women's economic empowerment in polygynous households in Burkina Faso4
Parent–teen dyadic experiences of racism: Implications for Black familial racial socialization4
“Thank u, next”? Repartnering and the household division of labor4
The longitudinal associations between personality traits and psychological intimate partner violence4
Stability and relevance of marriage desires: Importance of age norms and partnering opportunities4
Social change and relationship quality among sexual minority individuals: Does minority stress still matter?4
Same‐sex marriage legislation and implementation: Marital intention and barriers for marriage actualization among same‐sex couples in Asia4
The impact of narratives of the future on fertility intentions in Norway4
Divorce among more and less divorce‐prone populations following unilateral divorce laws4
Tracking types of non‐parents in the United States3
Examining parents' susceptibility: Coparenting relationships and parental involvement in low‐income families3
The anatomy of immigration enforcement: Long‐standing socio‐emotional impacts on children as they age into adulthood3
Does the intergenerational transmission of crime depend on family complexity?3
When push comes to shove: Local violence and residential mobility among families3
Timing of early childcare take‐up in Germany: An application of rational choice theory3
Family and religion in flux: Relationship complexity, type of religiosity, and race/ethnicity3
How LGBTQ Adults Maintain Ties With Rejecting Parents: Theorizing “Conflict Work” as Family Work3
What is your type? Latent classes of newly married couples' gender ideologies3
The rising midlife first marriage rate in the U.S.3
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Child Custody Preferences in Light of Attitudes Toward the Couple's Division of Labor in Portugal3
“I don't try to seek him out”: Views of child support over time3
Reciprocal influences among marital relationship, Parent–adolescent relationship, and youth depressive symptoms3
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Mothers', Fathers' and Siblings' Housework Time Within Family Households3
An increasing disinterest in fatherhood among childless men in the United States: A brief report3
Parenthood, stress, and well‐being among cisgender and transgender gay and lesbian adults3
Temporary Aid for Needy Families as family policy for first time mothers2
Between‐sibling inequality in inheritances: Intergenerational support and patrilineality in South Korea2
Local violence and transitions to marriage and cohabitation in Mexico2
Making it work: Fathers' nonstandard work schedules and parenting activities2
Older adults on the dating market: The role of family caregiving responsibilities2
Did perceptions of supportive work–life culture change during the COVID‐19 pandemic?2
The link between singlehood in young adulthood and effects of romantic separation2
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Women who initiate divorce embrace autonomy2
Understanding CRT and its implications for family science2
Support exchanges between adult children and their parents across life transitions2
Contexts of reproduction: Gender dynamics and unintended birth in sub‐Saharan Africa2
Taking diversity seriously: Within‐group heterogeneity in African American extended family support networks2
Revisiting the polygyny and intimate partner violence connection: The role of religion and wife's rank in Nigeria2
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COVID‐19 job loss and re‐employment among partnered parents: Gender and educational variations2
Introduction to mid‐decade Special Issue on Theory and Methods2
Effects of Covid‐19 lockdown on parental functioning in vulnerable families2
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Parental involvement in stepfamilies: Biology, relationship type, residence, and gender2
The evolution of family policies and couples' housework division after childbirth in Germany, 1994–20192
Parental identity and socialization mediate parental racial discrimination's impact on child adjustment2
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Innovative strategies for increasing sample size and diversity in family science research2
The carceral logic of parental responsibility1
Attachment anxiety and avoidance predict postnatal partner support through impaired affective communication1
Methods and theory for analyzing intensive longitudinal data in family research1
“We'll make it work”: Navigating surveilled living arrangements after romantic partner incarceration1
Mapping modern kinship networks: First results from the KINMATRIX survey1
Why mothers double up: The role of demographic, economic, and family characteristics1
Sleep in adolescence: Considering family structure and family complexity1
Family resiliency in the aftermath of COVID‐19 pandemic: A latent profile analysis1
Correction to “Parent–child contact, closeness, and conflict across the transition to adulthood”1
Parent–adult child estrangement in the United States by gender, race/ethnicity, and sexuality1
Fatherhood and wage inequality in Britain, Finland, and Germany1
Cultural adaptation congruence in immigrant spouses is associated with marital quality1
Gender, family separation, and negative emotional well‐being among recent Mexican migrants1
The intergenerational transmission of gender: Paternal influences on children's gender attitudes1
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Racial/ethnic differences in living arrangements, distant relations, and later‐life mental health1
Maternal differential treatment and adult children's well‐being when mothers have cognitive impairment1
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“You're biracial but…”: Multiracial socialization discourse among mommy bloggers with Black and non‐Black multiracial children1
Parental separation and children's genetic influences on education1
The multiracial family as an anomaly: Experiences of monoracism1
Trans family systems framework: Theorizing families' gender investments and divestments in cisnormativity1
Childlessness and sibling positioning in upward intergenerational support: Insights from Singapore1
Parental leave‐taking and perceptions of workers as good parents1
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Feeling wronged versus pressing on: Unearthing the tensions of Appalachian fatherhood1
Cherished families, unspoken truths: Navigating hidden and challenging family experiences while growing up with LGBTQ parents1
Marriage, cohabitation, and institutional context: Household specialization among same‐sex and different‐sex couples1
Leveraging protections, navigating punishments: How adult children of undocumented immigrants mediate illegality in Latinx families1
Retracted: Adverse childhood experiences, psychological distress, and fathering behaviors1
Beyond the (family) binary: Family environment heterogeneity among transgender adults1
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