OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Family Issues is 5. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Parenting Immigrants: Understanding How Family Relationships Impact the Wellbeing of Older Chinese Immigrants Living on the Gold Coast, Australia	42
Is it an Impossible Task? Exploring the Lived Experiences of Christian Parents With Young Children in the UK	38
The Cost of “A Better Life”: Children Left Behind—Beyond Ambiguous Loss	30
The Remarriage Belief Inventory: A Validation Study in the Remarried Portuguese Population	28
The Role of Adverse Childhood Experiences in the Trajectories to Adulthood of Chinese Youth: A Retrospective Study	23
Chinese Lesbian and Gay Adults’ Self-Reported Experiences of Negative Treatment and Violence From Family of Origin: Evidence From a Larger-Scale Study in China	21
Weathering the Storm: Longitudinal Evidence on Women’s Changing Family Relationships During COVID-19	17
Attitudes Toward Heterosexual and Lesbian Stepmothers: An Experimental Test in the Italian Context	17
Feminist Mothering and Primary Prevention of Gendered Violence: Insights From Australian Mothers Raising Sons	17
Mental Health Across the Life Course for Men and Women in Married, Cohabiting, and Living Apart Together Relationships	15
The Impact of Physical Health, Race, and Financial Status on Relational Satisfaction	15
Parental Recollections of Bullying	14
Educational Assortative Mating and Its Impact on Marital Quality in China	14
Experiences of Autonomy in Marriage and Divorce Within the Chinese Traditional System	14
Advice for New Stepparents From the Perspective of Stepchildren Who Experienced Stepfamily Formation During Adolescence	14
Parents’ Perceptions of Education and Culture as a Context of Parental Stress: A Study of Parents of Preschool Children in Hong Kong	13
Parents’ Perceptions of Children’s Behavioral Difficulties and the Parent–Child Interaction During the COVID-19 Lockdown	13
Infidelity and Anger within Incarcerated Couples: A Brief Report	13
Grandparenting and Well-Being of the Elderly in China	13
Caregivers’ Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Their Children’s Behavior	12
Will Adults’ Happiness be Affected by Childhood Parental Divorce? Evidence From China	12
Imbalanced Sex Ratios and Marital Transitions in Mexico	11
How Parents Play: Play Style as a Function of Gender of Parent, Gender of Child, and Play Context	11
Navigating Parenthood in the Pandemic: Revealing the Trade-offs of Childcare Choices Through Conjoint Analysis	11
Children’s Contact With Fathers Who Never Co-Resided With Them and Father–Child Relationship Quality at age 9	10

Mothers and Others: How Collective Strategies Reproduce Social Norms Around Motherhood	10
Family Communication and Psychological Distress in the Era of COVID-19 Pandemic: Mediating Role of Coping	9
Early Life Family Care for and With Migrants: The Development of a Transcultural Transition Mentoring Competence Profile	9
Doing Gender with Class: Gender Division of Unpaid Work in Russian Middle-Class Dual Earner Heterosexual Households	9
Preliminary Analysis of the Past and Planned Investments Measure in Turkish Dual-Career Married Individuals	9
Sexual Identity in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer or Questioning Emerging Adults: The Role of Parental Rejection, and Sexuality Specific Family Support	9
Socio-economic Correlates of Marital Status and Marriage Timing Among Adult Men in Nigeria	9
Child–Parent Relationships and Older Adults’ Health: A Cross-Cultural Comparison Between China and the United States	9
“I didn’t Even Realize I Agreed to Meet the Child so Rarely.” Negotiations and Parental Desires in LGBTQ Family Forming Processes	9
“Mature Enough to Handle it?”: Gendered Parental Interventions in and Adolescents’ Reactions to Technology Use During the Pandemic	9
Student Parents or Parent Students in Lockdown Pandemic? A Third Space approach	8
When Working From Home Fails to Support Work–Life Balance: The Role of Childcare- and Work-Related Demands	8
Portraits of Life After Loss: Understanding Parental Loss Within A Social Context	8
A Hybrid Model for the Intergenerational Relationship Between Maternal Poverty and Their Young Adult Child’s Self-Esteem	8
Coparenting Quality During COVID-19: Exploring Gender Differences Using a Mixed Methods Approach	8
Academia and Motherhood: A Narrative Inquiry of Ontario Academic Mothers’ Experiences in University Graduate Programs	8
The Inverse Association Between Number of Siblings and Divorce: New Evidence From China and Europe	8
Parental Alienating Behaviours Experienced by Alienated Grandparents	8
Who You Live With Matters: Living Arrangements and Life Expectancy With the Evidence From Eighteen-Year Follow-Up Data	8
Attitudes and Feelings Among Married Mothers and Single Mothers by Choice During the Covid-19 Crisis	7
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
Symptoms of Anxiety in Mothers During the COVID-19 Lockdown: A Structural Equation Model Approach	7
Loneliness Among Chinese Older Adults: The Role of Grandparenthood and Grandparental Childcare by Gender	7
Familial Predictors of Alcohol and Drug Use-Related Problems Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults	7
Foster Caregiver Experiences: Implications for Retention and Satisfaction	7
Perspectives on Sexual Socialization from a Sample of Black Heterosexual College Women	7
‘It’s Nothing Serious I Suppose’ Family Help-Seeking for Adolescent Social Anxiety	7
“I Would Like to, But My World Wouldn’t End If I Didn’t”: Marital Aspirations Among Sexual Minority Young Adults	7
‘We Call It the Square Au Pair’. Exploring Working Mothers’ Experiences of Using Digital Devices as ‘Babysitters’	7
Gendered Housework Among Adolescents in India	7
The Racialization of Latino Families	7
“She Took Care of Us and She Went Through a Lot”: Emotional Availability, Emotional Support, and Millennials’ Gendered Understandings of Parenting	7
Ready for Parenthood? On Intensive Parenting Ideals and Fertility	7
How to Find Mr/Miss Right? The Mechanism of Search Among Online Daters in Shanghai	7
Exploring the Psychosocial Experiences of Within the Family Adoptees: An initiative for Mental Well-Being	6
Exploring Linkages Between Mother–Child and Sibling Relationship Quality and Prosocial Behavior Between School-Aged and Adolescent Siblings	6
Vulnerability of Poverty between Male and Female Headed Household in Tanzania	6
Trends in the Prevalence of Childfree Women in the Philippines, 1993–2022	6
International Displacement and Family Stress in Latin America	6
“Once You Become a Parent, You are a Parent Forever”: An Examination of Memorable Messages About Having Children and Becoming a Parent	6
Women Caregivers Under the Spanish Autonomy and Dependence System: A New Social Underclass?	6
Socialization Past and Present: Intergenerational Transmission of Parenting Behaviors in Multispecies Families	6
Differences in Life Satisfaction and Emotions by Romantic Coupling and Sexual Orientation	6
Quality and Quantity of Grandparent Contact: Associations with Late Adolescents’ Psychological Adjustment	6
Supporting Children and Kinship Caregivers in the Context of Substance Use Disorder: Perspectives of Key Professionals	6
Motherhood and Childfree Choice: Accounts of Indian Childfree Women	6
Racial Disparity in Parenting Practice Among Parents With Young Children	6
Macro-Level Correlates of Early Marriage in Asia	6
Family Dynamics in Cross-National Families With Young Children in Singapore	6
Parents’ Family Coping Strategies during the Pandemic: Effects on Parent and Child Well-Being	6

Parental Stress Provoked by Short-Term School Closures During the Second COVID-19 Lockdown	6
Marital Beliefs and Decisions Among Young Chinese Medical Workers	5
The Influence of Work–Family Conflict on Parental Burnout in China: Moderating Effect of Spousal Support and its Gender Differences	5
Abdication of Responsibility for Father–Child Contact in a Group of Black South African Non-resident Father Families: A Systems Perspective	5
The Heterogeneous Effect of Parental Investment on Old-Age Support: Only Children As the Main Caregivers in China	5
‘It’s a Man’s Job’: Doing Gender and Male Gatekeeping in the Division of Household Labor	5
Coparenting, Couple Conflict, Social Support, and Relationship Quality: A Dyadic Exploration of Couples From LIEM Backgrounds	5
The Impact of Paternity Leave Compared to Unemployment on Child Care and Housework Distribution in Spain	5
Families in Multi-Problem Situations in India: Exploration From the Fifth Round of the National Family Health Survey	5
Parental Mediation of Cell Phone Use and Adolescent Autonomy	5
Are You Satisfied? Examining Positive Interaction and Satisfaction in Romantic Relationships	5
Grandchild Caring and Late-Life Depression: A Comparative Longitudinal Study in China and Europe	5
Parents’ Experiences in the Coming Out Process of LGB Individuals: A Focus on Mothers’ Journeys	5
Men’s Marriage Trends in Asia: Changes and Continuities	5
How Important Is Early Paternal Engagement? Deriving Longitudinal Measures of Fathers’ Childcare Engagement and Exploring Structural Relationships With Prior Engagement and Employment Hours	5
Lower-Income Nonresident Fathers’ Self-Perceptions About Their Parenting Quality and Relationships With Children	5
A Sense of Connectedness in Reproductive Donation. Contrasting Policy With Donor and Donor Kin Lived Experience	5
Women’s Attitudes Toward Intimate Partner Violence in Sindh, Pakistan: An Analysis of Multiple Indicators Cluster Survey	5
Relationship Beliefs and Communication Skills in Turkish Married Individuals: Examining the Mediating Role of Partner Accommodation Behavior and Emotional Dependency	5
Joint Utility or Sub-optimal Outcomes? Household Income Development of Same-Sex and Different-Sex Couples Transitioning to Parenthood in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden	5
Siblinghood Amongst Older Adults: What Being a Sibling or Having Siblings Means	5
Single Motherhood and Stress in a Kenyan Slum: The Importance of Paternal and Kin Support	5
Effects of Intimate Partner Violence Prevention Programming on Social Support, Coparenting, and Parenting Among Teen Parents: A Pilot Study	5
The Long-Term Impact of Family Experiences in Adolescence on Mother–Child Relationships in Early Adulthood	5
Longitudinal Psychological Family Studies in Austria: A Scoping Review	5