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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
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Paternity leave‐taking and early childhood development: A longitudinal analysis in Singapore34
The asymmetric effects of improving and declining marital satisfaction on cognitive function34
Work as overload or enhancement for family caregivers of older adults: Assessment of experienced well‐being over the day29
Unplanned costs and benefits: Gender and spousal spillover effects of retirement on health28
Support matters: How formal and informal institutions shape young Indians' work‐family preferences27
Between‐firm sorting and parenthood wage gaps in the US service sector25
Early‐life disadvantage and parent‐to‐child financial transfers25
Converging mothers' employment trajectories between East and West Germany? A focus on the 2008‐childcare‐reform24
Getting married in a highly individualized context: Commitment and gender equality matter23
Paternal incarceration and children's reading achievement: The role of maternal caregiving quality23
Tracking types of non‐parents in the United States22
Relationship quality in midlife: A comparison of dating, living apart together, cohabitation, and marriage22
Family and household sources of poverty for Black, Hispanic, and White newborns22
Privileged dependence, precarious autonomy: Parent/young adult relationships through the lens of COVID‐1920
Parenting stress in lockdown: The role of changes in Children's routines and Parents' relationship with live‐in grandparents20
What is your type? Latent classes of newly married couples' gender ideologies20
Social norms, agency, and marriage aspirations in Malawi19
Parents' childbearing motivations, parenting, and child adjustment: From pregnancy to20‐monthspostpartum19
The impact of narratives of the future on fertility intentions in Norway18
Familism among Latino/a adolescents: Evidence from time‐use data17
How Does Taking Parental Leave Affect the Wages of Highly Educated Parents?17
Attitudes toward same‐sex couple parents: A decade of change16
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Trans family systems framework: Theorizing families' gender investments and divestments in cisnormativity15
Introduction to mid‐decade Special Issue on Theory and Methods15
“You're biracial but…”: Multiracial socialization discourse among mommy bloggers with Black and non‐Black multiracial children15
Differences by sexual orientation in romantic relationship attitudes and skills among adolescents15
Maternal differential treatment and adult children's well‐being when mothers have cognitive impairment14
Occupational autonomy, paid maternity leave, and mothers' return to work after childbirth14
Family and religion in flux: Relationship complexity, type of religiosity, and race/ethnicity14
Gone too long or back too soon? Perceptions of paid parental leave‐taking and variations by gender and family structure13
A longitudinal dyadic analysis of gender ideology during the transition into parenthood13
Parenting stress and attachment insecurity in young adulthood: A social relations model13
Does the impact of parental death vary by parental socioeconomic status? A study of children's educational and occupational attainment13
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Gender differences in the economic consequences of life‐long singlehood among older white U.S. adults12
How gender shapes sibling tension in adulthood following parental death12
Intergenerational associations of maternal depression with daughters' family formation12
Leveraging protections, navigating punishments: How adult children of undocumented immigrants mediate illegality in Latinx families12
Adult children's responsiveness to parental needs during the pandemic12
Telecommuting and gender inequalities in parents' paid and unpaid work before and during theCOVID‐19 pandemic11
Emerging digital inequality in early life: Parenting and differential usage of digital devices among urban preschoolers in China11
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Grandparents' and domestic helpers' childcare support: Implications for well‐being in Asian families11
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Sexual passion in couple relationships: Emerging patterns from dyadic response surface analysis11
Keeping us young? Grandchild caregiving and older adults' cognitive functioning10
Does perceived gender conflict shape young Koreans' attitudes toward marriage and childbearing?10
State minimum wage increases delay marriage and reduce divorce among low‐wage households10
I am home. The circle is complete: The reunification of fostered/adopted relatives10
Associations between parental precarious work schedules and child behavior problems among low‐income families10
Intergenerational and digital solidarity: Associations with depressive symptoms during the COVID‐19 pandemic10
Lingering shadows of childhood corporal punishment: Family trajectories across decades10
Theorizing White heteropatriarchal supremacy, marriage fundamentalism, and the mechanisms that maintain family inequality10
Interparental conflict and mindful parenting practices: Transactional effects between mothers and fathers9
Black–White disparities in nuclear family trajectories and parents' postsecondary transfers to adult children9
Educational experiences and American young adults' childbearing goals: A research note9
Child support debt and the well‐being of disadvantaged fathers of color9
Family socioeconomic status and children's screen time9
Intimate Partner Violence: A Dyadic Examination of Self‐Differentiation and Responsive Caregiving9
The emotional management of motherhood: Foodwork, maternal guilt, and emotion work8
Negotiating good motherhood: Foodwork, emotion work, and downscaling8
“If I got it, she got it”: Black mothers' food provision and symbiotic mothering8
Burdens of the what‐if: Vicarious anti‐Black racism and stress for Black mothers8
Mealtime emotion work: Gendered politics of care and power at the table8
Adultification in the context of childhood exposure to domestic violence8
Effects of welfare reform on maternal engagement and involvement with young adolescents8
Latent change modeling of Latino parent–child conflict and pathways to mental health8
Race and ethnic differences in step‐ versus biological parent support to adult children8
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Does income moderate basic relationship processes?7
Converging trends in developmental child care time by fathers' education? Comment on Cha and Park (2021)7
“I don't try to seek him out”: Views of child support over time7
Desired fertility and educational aspirations: Adolescent goals in rapidly changing social contexts7
Stability and relevance of marriage desires: Importance of age norms and partnering opportunities7
My relatives are waiting: Barriers to tribal enrollment of fostered/adopted American Indians7
Young‐age exposure to armed conflict and women's experiences of intimate partner violence7
Other adults in the United States: Improving survey measures of youths' non‐parental adult relationships7
Mate preferences and marriage‐related behaviors: The case of Japan7
“Normal” childhood in the lives of financially struggling white daughters and mothers7
Effects of extended paternity leave on family dynamics7
Frontline love: Romantic partners of frontline doctors and nurses during the New York City COVID‐19 outbreak7
Stepfamily formation and the educational outcomes of children in Sweden7
Mothering in the streets: Familial adaptation strategies of street‐identified Black American mothers7
The longitudinal associations between personality traits and psychological intimate partner violence7
Assessing the deinstitutionalization of marriage thesis: Changes in the meaning of cohabitation over the relationship life course7
Classifying and mapping gender ideologies globally: Gender attitudes in 47 countries at the turn of the 21st century6
Temporary Aid for Needy Families as family policy for first time mothers6
An increasing disinterest in fatherhood among childless men in the United States: A brief report6
Correction to “Parent–child contact, closeness, and conflict across the transition to adulthood”6
Two sides of a coin: The relationship between work autonomy and childbearing6
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The rising midlife first marriage rate in the U.S.6
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Gender inequality in intergenerational contact after parental separation in the digital era6
Stigma arising from youth police contact: The protective role ofmother–youthcloseness6
Indian Wives of Incarcerated Men Tell Their Own Stories: An Intersectional Narrative Analysis of Disenfranchisement and Resilience6
Revisiting the polygyny and intimate partner violence connection: The role of religion and wife's rank in Nigeria6
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Parent–teen dyadic experiences of racism: Implications for Black familial racial socialization6
Qualitative family research: Innovative, flexible, theoretical, reflexive6
From the Editor5
Using experiments to study families and intimate relationships5
Childlessness and sibling positioning in upward intergenerational support: Insights from Singapore5
Exploring African American marital strengths during COVID‐195
One parent, two parents, one sex, two sexes: Public attitudes toward single and same‐sex parents5
The payroll tax contribution limit and women's labor market outcomes5
How couples meet and assortative mating in Canada5
Racial/ethnic differences in living arrangements, distant relations, and later‐life mental health5
Friend, foe, or forget ‘em?: The quality of LGBTQ adult sibling relationships5
How gendered lived experiences shape sex preference attitudes in contemporary urban China5
Defining and measuring family: Lessons learned from LGBTQ+ people and families5
Marginalized identities, healthcare discrimination, and parental stress about COVID‐195
Maternal education, early language skills, and mother–child interactions across three welfare states5
“I have a certain standard:” HBCU women's heterosexual aspirations and identity negotiation5
Cultural repertoires and status safeguarding among rural middle‐class parents5
Preschools, family social capital, and child development in Cambodia5
Sex of Child, the Fatherhood Bonus, and Fathers' Work Hours5
Partner violence surrounding divorce: A record‐linkage study of wives and their husbands4
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Intraindividual differences in adolescent threat appraisals and anxiety associated with Interparental conflict4
Longitudinal associations between sibling relationship quality and child adjustment after divorce4
Slow to launch: Young men's parental coresidence and employment outcomes4
Who can work when, and why do we have to care? Education, care demands, and the gendered division of work schedules in France and Germany4
The fall and rise of parental financial investments during the COVID‐19 pandemic4
“The children don't do enough”: Including children in fairness perceptions of housework4
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The ties that bind: Questions for studying families in neighborhood contexts4
Administrative burdens as a family affair: Navigating racialized safety‐net systems post‐welfare reform4
Climate change worries and fertility intentions: Insights from three EU countries4
Conjugal testamentary practices in Canada: The gendered effect of children from other unions4
The gendered economic consequences of forming a single‐parent household after separation4
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Paternal involvement and children's internalization of gender roles in early childhood4
Multidirectional carework across borders: Latina immigrant women negotiating motherhood and daughterhood4
Estimating the percentage of men who are childfree using the National Survey of Family Growth: A comment on Bozick (2023)4
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Adult sibling relationships: The impact of cohabitation, marriage, separation, and childbearing3
For better or worse: Economic strain, furlough, and relationship quality during the Covid‐19 lockdown3
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Involuntary childlessness in the U.S. and Israel: Pronatalism, gender, and sexual identity3
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Coparenting profiles and children's socioemotional outcomes in unmarried parents with low‐income3
Societal transitions, ethnolinguistic identities, and marital conservatism in Central Asia3
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Relational Turbulence Among Retired Couples in Arab Society: An APIM Analysis3
Incarceration and family instability: Considering relationship churning3
“It changed the atmosphere surrounding the baby I did have”: Making sense of reproduction during the COVID‐19 pandemic3
Latinx LGBTQ+ youth and grandparents: Intergenerational solidarity, precarious familismo, and cisnormativity3
COVID‐19 and the role of gender, earnings, and telecommuting in parents' employment3
A typology of US parents' mental loads: Core and episodic cognitive labor3
Social change and relationship quality among sexual minority individuals: Does minority stress still matter?3
“Thank u, next”? Repartnering and the household division of labor3
Surveilling system exposure and parental institutional disengagement2
State‐level safety net spending and educational gaps in maternal time with children2
Stepfamily variation in parent–child relationship quality in later life2
Parental separation and children's genetic influences on education2
Why mothers double up: The role of demographic, economic, and family characteristics2
Gender‐Role Attitudes and Marriage Desires Among Never‐Married Adults in South Korea2
Mapping modern kinship networks: First results from the KINMATRIX survey2
Working from home and bi‐directional work–family conflict: Longitudinal evidence from Australian parents2
Timing of early childcare take‐up in Germany: An application of rational choice theory2
Intermarriage and housing upon separation. A matter of resources and bargaining power?2
Minority stress and structural stigma predict well‐being in European LGBTQ+ parents2
Geographic relocation in response to parents' health shocks: Who moves and how close?2
The long‐term effects of formal child support2
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A brief report on the COVID‐19 pandemic and ideal family size in the United States2
Sleep in adolescence: Considering family structure and family complexity2
Between‐sibling inequality in inheritances: Intergenerational support and patrilineality in South Korea2
Calling on kin: Poverty, the family safety net, and child welfare policy2
“Mom, I'm Polyamorous”: Parental Reactions to Polyamory Identity Disclosures2
The consequences of sibling criminal legal system contact for family life2
Beyond motherhood: Childless Black women and compulsory mothering2
“We'll make it work”: Navigating surveilled living arrangements after romantic partner incarceration2
Reciprocal influences among marital relationship, Parent–adolescent relationship, and youth depressive symptoms2
Parent–adult child estrangement in the United States by gender, race/ethnicity, and sexuality2
Caring for Parents/In‐Laws and Cognitive Functioning of Adult Children in China2
Innovative strategies for increasing sample size and diversity in family science research2
Relationships among adult full, half, and stepsiblings: Does coresidence explain the stepgap?2
Making it work: Fathers' nonstandard work schedules and parenting activities2
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Co‐residence beliefs 1973–2018: Older adults feel differently than younger adults1
The digitalization of family life: A multilevel conceptual framework1
Pandemic precarity: COVID‐19's impact on Mexican and Central American immigrant families1
The link between singlehood in young adulthood and effects of romantic separation1
Corrigendum1
Unmarried Americans vote more Democratic than their married counterparts: The role of race and religiosity in the marital gap (a research brief )1
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 children1
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Cognitive housework and Parents' relationship satisfaction1
The changing face of intimate premarital relationships in Taiwan1
Families with more than one trans person: Investments and divestments in cisnormativity1
Early marriage and health among women at midlife: Evidence from India1
Trends in child support receipt and regularity in the United States, 1996–20181
The panic stays in your mind…concentrating more on the worries than the relationship”: Intimate partnerships during COVID‐19 for immigrant women in New York City1
Risk tolerance and fertility: Evidence from a lottery question in Italy1
Parental leave‐taking and perceptions of workers as good parents1
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Methods for studying structural oppression in quantitative family research1
Deprivation and intra‐family conflict: Children as agents in the Family Stress Model1
Fairness perceptions of the postdivorce division of childcare and child‐related expenses1
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Supervised machine learning for exploratory analysis in family research1
Racial‐ethnic stratification in work–family arrangements among Black, Hispanic, and white couples1
The educational diffusion of divorce: The role of gender and context1
How much his or her job loss influences fertility: A couple approach1
Child executive function linking marital adjustment to peer nominations of prosocial behavior1
“Why wait?”: Early marriage among Southern college students1
Intersectional bonds: Delinquency, arrest, and changing family social capital during adolescence1
Time cannot heal all wounds: Wealth trajectories of divorcees and the married1
Women who initiate divorce embrace autonomy1
Examining parents' susceptibility: Coparenting relationships and parental involvement in low‐income families1
Local violence and transitions to marriage and cohabitation in Mexico1
“Doing authority”: Stories of parental authority across three generations1
What is QuantCrit doing in a nice field like family science?1
Relationship satisfaction and commitment in the transition to parenthood: A couple‐centered approach1
Parental absence during childhood and intergenerational solidarity in adulthood in China1
Childhood exposure to family violence and adult sibling relationships1
Partner support and connection protect couples during pregnancy: A daily diary investigation1
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