Journal of Family Issues

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Family Issues is 2. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Parenting Immigrants: Understanding How Family Relationships Impact the Wellbeing of Older Chinese Immigrants Living on the Gold Coast, Australia45
Is it an Impossible Task? Exploring the Lived Experiences of Christian Parents With Young Children in the UK40
The Remarriage Belief Inventory: A Validation Study in the Remarried Portuguese Population32
The Role of Adverse Childhood Experiences in the Trajectories to Adulthood of Chinese Youth: A Retrospective Study28
Chinese Lesbian and Gay Adults’ Self-Reported Experiences of Negative Treatment and Violence From Family of Origin: Evidence From a Larger-Scale Study in China24
Feminist Mothering and Primary Prevention of Gendered Violence: Insights From Australian Mothers Raising Sons21
Weathering the Storm: Longitudinal Evidence on Women’s Changing Family Relationships During COVID-1921
Advice for New Stepparents From the Perspective of Stepchildren Who Experienced Stepfamily Formation During Adolescence19
Parental Recollections of Bullying19
The Impact of Physical Health, Race, and Financial Status on Relational Satisfaction17
Attitudes Toward Heterosexual and Lesbian Stepmothers: An Experimental Test in the Italian Context15
Experiences of Autonomy in Marriage and Divorce Within the Chinese Traditional System15
Mental Health Across the Life Course for Men and Women in Married, Cohabiting, and Living Apart Together Relationships15
The Cost of “A Better Life”: Children Left Behind—Beyond Ambiguous Loss15
Educational Assortative Mating and Its Impact on Marital Quality in China15
Parents’ Perceptions of Children’s Behavioral Difficulties and the Parent–Child Interaction During the COVID-19 Lockdown14
Grandparenting and Well-Being of the Elderly in China14
Parents’ Perceptions of Education and Culture as a Context of Parental Stress: A Study of Parents of Preschool Children in Hong Kong13
Infidelity and Anger within Incarcerated Couples: A Brief Report13
Will Adults’ Happiness be Affected by Childhood Parental Divorce? Evidence From China13
Caregivers’ Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Their Children’s Behavior12
Imbalanced Sex Ratios and Marital Transitions in Mexico11
How Parents Play: Play Style as a Function of Gender of Parent, Gender of Child, and Play Context11
Child–Parent Relationships and Older Adults’ Health: A Cross-Cultural Comparison Between China and the United States10
It’s the Thought that Counts: Pregnancy Intention and Relationship Stressors Across SES10
Mothers and Others: How Collective Strategies Reproduce Social Norms Around Motherhood9
Navigating Parenthood in the Pandemic: Revealing the Trade-offs of Childcare Choices Through Conjoint Analysis9
Doing Gender with Class: Gender Division of Unpaid Work in Russian Middle-Class Dual Earner Heterosexual Households9
Early Life Family Care for and With Migrants: The Development of a Transcultural Transition Mentoring Competence Profile9
Preliminary Analysis of the Past and Planned Investments Measure in Turkish Dual-Career Married Individuals9
Sexual Identity in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer or Questioning Emerging Adults: The Role of Parental Rejection, and Sexuality Specific Family Support9
Socio-economic Correlates of Marital Status and Marriage Timing Among Adult Men in Nigeria9
Children’s Contact With Fathers Who Never Co-Resided With Them and Father–Child Relationship Quality at age 99
“I didn’t Even Realize I Agreed to Meet the Child so Rarely.” Negotiations and Parental Desires in LGBTQ Family Forming Processes9
“Mature Enough to Handle it?”: Gendered Parental Interventions in and Adolescents’ Reactions to Technology Use During the Pandemic9
Parental Alienating Behaviours Experienced by Alienated Grandparents8
Academia and Motherhood: A Narrative Inquiry of Ontario Academic Mothers’ Experiences in University Graduate Programs8
Family Communication and Psychological Distress in the Era of COVID-19 Pandemic: Mediating Role of Coping8
When Working From Home Fails to Support Work–Life Balance: The Role of Childcare- and Work-Related Demands8
Who You Live With Matters: Living Arrangements and Life Expectancy With the Evidence From Eighteen-Year Follow-Up Data8
Coparenting Quality During COVID-19: Exploring Gender Differences Using a Mixed Methods Approach8
A Hybrid Model for the Intergenerational Relationship Between Maternal Poverty and Their Young Adult Child’s Self-Esteem8
Familial Predictors of Alcohol and Drug Use-Related Problems Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults7
Loneliness Among Chinese Older Adults: The Role of Grandparenthood and Grandparental Childcare by Gender7
How to Find Mr/Miss Right? The Mechanism of Search Among Online Daters in Shanghai7
The Racialization of Latino Families7
Portraits of Life After Loss: Understanding Parental Loss Within A Social Context7
‘It’s Nothing Serious I Suppose’ Family Help-Seeking for Adolescent Social Anxiety7
Symptoms of Anxiety in Mothers During the COVID-19 Lockdown: A Structural Equation Model Approach7
Ready for Parenthood? On Intensive Parenting Ideals and Fertility7
Parents’ Family Coping Strategies during the Pandemic: Effects on Parent and Child Well-Being7
The Inverse Association Between Number of Siblings and Divorce: New Evidence From China and Europe7
Attitudes and Feelings Among Married Mothers and Single Mothers by Choice During the Covid-19 Crisis7
Understanding Military Motherhood: How the Armed Forces’ Childcare and Family Leave Policies Impact Servicewomen with Young Children7
Student Parents or Parent Students in Lockdown Pandemic? A Third Space approach7
“I Would Like to, But My World Wouldn’t End If I Didn’t”: Marital Aspirations Among Sexual Minority Young Adults7
‘We Call It the Square Au Pair’. Exploring Working Mothers’ Experiences of Using Digital Devices as ‘Babysitters’7
“She Took Care of Us and She Went Through a Lot”: Emotional Availability, Emotional Support, and Millennials’ Gendered Understandings of Parenting7
Foster Caregiver Experiences: Implications for Retention and Satisfaction7
Perspectives on Sexual Socialization from a Sample of Black Heterosexual College Women7
Actual and Perceived Parental Knowledge and Child Delinquency: Does the Sex of the Parent, the Sex of the Child, and the Child’s Age Make a Difference?7
Exploring the Psychosocial Experiences of Within the Family Adoptees: An initiative for Mental Well-Being6
Women Caregivers Under the Spanish Autonomy and Dependence System: A New Social Underclass?6
“Once You Become a Parent, You are a Parent Forever”: An Examination of Memorable Messages About Having Children and Becoming a Parent6
Motherhood and Childfree Choice: Accounts of Indian Childfree Women6
Coparenting, Couple Conflict, Social Support, and Relationship Quality: A Dyadic Exploration of Couples From LIEM Backgrounds6
Family Dynamics in Cross-National Families With Young Children in Singapore6
International Displacement and Family Stress in Latin America6
Socialization Past and Present: Intergenerational Transmission of Parenting Behaviors in Multispecies Families6
Trends in the Prevalence of Childfree Women in the Philippines, 1993–20226
Quality and Quantity of Grandparent Contact: Associations with Late Adolescents’ Psychological Adjustment6
Vulnerability of Poverty between Male and Female Headed Household in Tanzania6
Parental Stress Provoked by Short-Term School Closures During the Second COVID-19 Lockdown6
Exploring Linkages Between Mother–Child and Sibling Relationship Quality and Prosocial Behavior Between School-Aged and Adolescent Siblings6
Racial Disparity in Parenting Practice Among Parents With Young Children6
Joint Utility or Sub-optimal Outcomes? Household Income Development of Same-Sex and Different-Sex Couples Transitioning to Parenthood in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden6
Differences in Life Satisfaction and Emotions by Romantic Coupling and Sexual Orientation6
The Impact of Paternity Leave Compared to Unemployment on Child Care and Housework Distribution in Spain5
How Important Is Early Paternal Engagement? Deriving Longitudinal Measures of Fathers’ Childcare Engagement and Exploring Structural Relationships With Prior Engagement and Employment Hours5
How Nonreligious Parents Approach the (Non)Religious Socialization of Their Children5
Men’s Marriage Trends in Asia: Changes and Continuities5
Marital Beliefs and Decisions Among Young Chinese Medical Workers5
Families in Multi-Problem Situations in India: Exploration From the Fifth Round of the National Family Health Survey5
Abdication of Responsibility for Father–Child Contact in a Group of Black South African Non-resident Father Families: A Systems Perspective5
Parental Mediation of Cell Phone Use and Adolescent Autonomy5
‘It’s a Man’s Job’: Doing Gender and Male Gatekeeping in the Division of Household Labor5
Are You Satisfied? Examining Positive Interaction and Satisfaction in Romantic Relationships5
Macro-Level Correlates of Early Marriage in Asia5
Single Motherhood and Stress in a Kenyan Slum: The Importance of Paternal and Kin Support5
Lower-Income Nonresident Fathers’ Self-Perceptions About Their Parenting Quality and Relationships With Children5
Women’s Attitudes Toward Intimate Partner Violence in Sindh, Pakistan: An Analysis of Multiple Indicators Cluster Survey5
Parents’ Experiences in the Coming Out Process of LGB Individuals: A Focus on Mothers’ Journeys5
Longitudinal Psychological Family Studies in Austria: A Scoping Review5
Effects of Intimate Partner Violence Prevention Programming on Social Support, Coparenting, and Parenting Among Teen Parents: A Pilot Study5
The Heterogeneous Effect of Parental Investment on Old-Age Support: Only Children As the Main Caregivers in China5
A Sense of Connectedness in Reproductive Donation. Contrasting Policy With Donor and Donor Kin Lived Experience5
The Long-Term Impact of Family Experiences in Adolescence on Mother–Child Relationships in Early Adulthood5
The Influence of Work–Family Conflict on Parental Burnout in China: Moderating Effect of Spousal Support and its Gender Differences5
A Deeper Understanding of the Relationship between Family of Origin and Young Adult Cyber Dating Abuse: A Mediation Model4
Help-Seeking Behaviors of Male Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence in Kenya4
Fatherlessness: Black Jamaican Mothers’ Perspectives4
“Going-With-The-Flow” or “Getting-Things-Done”: A Folk Model of Intensive Parenting Among Middle-Class Parents4
Coping With Parental Pressure to Get Married: Perspectives From Chinese “Leftover Women”4
Locking Down Gender Roles? A Time-Use Perspective on Gender Division of Household Labour during the COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown in Belgium4
Siblinghood Amongst Older Adults: What Being a Sibling or Having Siblings Means4
Relationship Beliefs and Communication Skills in Turkish Married Individuals: Examining the Mediating Role of Partner Accommodation Behavior and Emotional Dependency4
Singleness and the Pandemic Dating Recession4
Number of Siblings and Mental Health Among Adolescents: Evidence From the U.S. and China4
Coupling with COVID: The Role of Dyadic Coping in Relationship Satisfaction and Psychological Distress during the COVID-19 Pandemic4
Parent/Caregiver Narratives of Challenges Related to Raising Transgender and/or Nonbinary Youth4
Bullying Victimization Among Ukrainian College Students: The Role of Family Communication and Satisfaction, Corporal Punishment and Child Abuse4
Filial Piety, Intimacy, and Inter-Generational Contract: Understanding the Family Support to Rural Empty-Nest Older Parents in China4
Exploring Civil Partnership From the Perspective of Those in Mixed-Sex Relationships: Embracing a Clean Slate of Equality4
Family Relationships and Young Italian Adults’ Well-Being: The Mediation Role of Mattering4
Grandchild Caring and Late-Life Depression: A Comparative Longitudinal Study in China and Europe4
“I Don’t Want to Be Bad Mommy, but I Also Don’t Want to Be the Bad Mom”: How Mothers Story Their Experiences Navigating Social Media with Their Children4
Blessing or Burden: Transitions Into Eldercare and Caregiver Mental Health4
Marital Satisfaction and Dissatisfaction Among Ghanaians4
Financial Stress, Family, Marital, and Life Satisfaction of Turkish Families During Covid-19: What Did We Learn?4
Social Capital, Families, Friendships, and Inter-generational Mobility4
Gender Equality in the Division of Housework and Fertility Intentions in Canada: The Moderating Effect of Employment and Education4
The Double-Edged Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Chinese Family Relationships4
Are Intensive Parenting Attitudes Internationally Generalizable? The Case of Sweden4
Children’s Experiences of Lockdown and Social Distancing in the Covid-19 Pandemic4
Marital Quality as a Mechanism Linking Childhood Abuse to Mental Health4
‘I Have to be the Mum and Dad for 4 Weeks Straight’. Exploring the Experiences and Support Needs of Australian Parents and Partners Engaged in Fly-In/Fly-Out Work Practices4
A Mixed Methods Study of Relationship Satisfaction in Parents of Children With Down Syndrome4
Difficulties Imposed on the Parent–Child Relationship Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic4
Examining the Reciprocal Relationship Between Fathers’ Perceived Parenting Competence and Coparenting Across Early Childhood3
Charting Work Arrangements and Family Configuration over Our Working Lives3
Age Gap Between Spouses in South and Southeast Asia3
Who can refuse? Attitudes About the Fertility Decisions of Wives and Husbands3
Interpersonal Discrimination and Relationship Quality among Married Mid-Life and Older Black Adults3
Remarriage After Divorce and Health in Later Life: Findings From CHARLS in China3
A Qualitative Study on Incarcerated Fathers’ Self-Reflection on Childhood Family Experiences and the Intergenerational Impact on Their Current Parenting Attitudes Through Expressive Letter Writing3
What Happens When Family is Forced Together: Conflict, Intimacy, and Distance in Queer and Trans Youth’s Family Relations During the Pandemic3
Title: New Parents’ Idealistic Expectations of Parenthood: The Impact of Preconceived Ideas3
Re-Examining the Link Between Premarital Sex and Divorce3
“We all have Regrets; it doesn’t Mean we are Failures”: Rejecting or Regretting Motherhood3
Change Trajectories and Predictors of Work-Family Conflict for Dual-Earner Parents Raising Preteens3
The Cyber Intimate Partner Violence: Prevalence, Context, and Relationship With In-Person Intimate Violence Victimization3
Topics of Conflict Across Family Subsystems3
All in the (Definition of) Family: Transnational Parent–Child Relationships, Rights to Family Life, and Canadian Immigration Law3
Ethnic-Racial Socialization of White Children by White Parents: A Systematic Review3
A Typology of Marital Quality among Javanese People3
Non-Standard Employment and Partnership Dissolution: A Comparison of Nonmarital Cohabitations and Marriages3
From Work-To-Family Conflict to Father-Infant Bonding: The Role of Marital Satisfaction3
Home, but Left Alone: Time at Home and Child Abuse and Neglect During COVID-193
Family Strength During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Indonesia3
Bonding Family Social Capital and Agency Among Native-Born and Immigrant College Women With Low Parental Financial Support3
Intergenerational Value Discordances and Affectual and Associational Solidarity Between Older Parents and Adult Children3
Relationship Status and Well-Being in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic3
The Well-Being Implications of Having Children: Evidence From Chinese National Surveys3
Employment Resources and the Physical and Mental Health of Mothers of Young Children3
Promoting Social Support as a Protective Factor for Parental Stress and Child Behavior Problems During the COVID-19 Pandemic3
Association of Systemic Family Dynamics and Well-Being During the COVID-19 Outbreak: A Cross-Sectional Survey3
Trajectories of Paternal Contact After Parental Separation: A Latent Class Growth Analysis3
Parenting During a Pandemic: Predictors of Parental Burnout3
“Momma Knows Best”: The Relationships Between Mothers’ and Fathers’ Gender Essentialism and Their Involvement With Their Adolescents3
How Do Employers Respond to a Policy Reform of Parental Leave? A Focus on Fathers and Companies From Economy Sectors With Traditionally Lower Take-Up Rates3
Facilitators and Barriers of Mother Engagement in a Home-based Parenting Program Following Concerns of Child Maltreatment3
The Experience of Work–Family Conflict: Does Being the Only Child Matter?3
Parents and Unwed Daughters as an Intergenerational Alliance? – Parental Matchmaking and China’s Single Women3
The Well-Being of Parents in the Year After Childbirth3
Mothers’ Post-separation Experiences of Male Partner Abuse: An Exploratory Study3
Parents’ Wisdom and Adolescents’ Cognitive, Social, and Emotional Developmental Qualities2
Work–Family Conflict and Emotional Exhaustion During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Argentina: The Moderating Role of Personal, Family, and Job Resources2
The Struggle to Balance Work and Family Life During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Insights Based on the Situations of Working Women in Delhi2
Consistency and Transformation of Filial Responsibility Attitudes in China: Evidence from Panel Study of Family Dynamics of 2004 and 20172
An Examination of How Spending Time Together Impacts the Quality of Relationship Between Native American Stepchildren and Their Residential Stepparent2
Changing Motherhood in the South African Middle-Class Context2
Toward a Better Understanding of the Associations Among Different Measures of Father Involvement and Parenting Alliance2
Norwegian Biological Parents and Stepparents’ Attitudes Towards Family Obligations in Middle and Old Age2
Work and Family Balance in Chilean Young People’s Life Plans2
Connecting With Shosho: Assessing the Role of Grandmothers in a Low-Income Population in Nairobi, Kenya2
Patterns and Predictors of Taiwanese Adult Children’s Intergenerational Exchanges Before and After Economic Stagnation2
Consensus on Constraints in Marital Satisfaction Among Married People in African Context2
Emotion Work and Gender Inequality in Transnational Family Life2
The Journey From Grandparent to Parent: Perceptions of Adoptive Grandparents Post-Adoption2
Cultural Orientation, Racial-Ethnic Socialization, and Youth Adjustment Outcomes: Test of a Path Model With Asian American Parents2
Child’s Gender, Parents’ Gender Ideology: Association and Contextual Variation in China2
How Does Religion Influence Parental Support of Young Adult Children?2
Korean Immigrant Fathers’ Perceptions and Attitudes Toward Their Parenting Involvement2
Marital Beliefs and Concerns of Spanish Emerging Adults2
The Revised Parent-Adolescent Conflict Issues Checklist: Development, Reliability, and Validity2
Out-of-Wedlock Adolescent Motherhood and Intimate Partner Violence in Kenya2
Families at Psychosocial Risk. Analysis of the Relation Between Parenting Competencies and Externalizing Problems in Children and Adolescents2
Employed Mothers’ Justifications for Using Child Home Care Allowance in Finland2
Transmission of and Views About Family Values in an Australian Convenience Sample: A Mixed Methods Study2
Dyadic Effects of Stress on Family Life Satisfaction in Mothers and Adolescents: Sense of Hope as Mediator2
Development of the Culturally Affirming and Responsive Experiences (CARE) Measure: Observing Responsiveness and Ethnic-Racial Cultural Socialization in Mother–Child Interactions2
Psychosocial Consequences of Disclosing Misattributed Paternity: A Narrative Review2
Young Black Fathers’ Perceptions of Fatherhood: A Family Systems Account2
Grandparents’ Retirement and Mother’s Employment Quality: The Mediating Role of Intergenerational Caregiving2
Consequences of Work-to-Family Conflicts for Parental Self-Efficacy—The Impact of Gender and Cultural Background in Germany2
Divorce Narratives and Class Inequalities in Indonesia2
Supporting Families Through Policies: Effective and Recommended Policies for Communication Technology, Digital Interventions, and Remote Work2
The Effect of Unilateral Divorce Laws on Marriage Outcomes2
Taking Care of Elderly Parents or Children: How Are They Related to the Decision to Hire Foreign Domestic Helpers?2
Immigration and Intergenerational Co-Residency Among Working-Aged Adults in the United Kingdom2
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