OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Family Issues is 4. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Parental Recollections of Bullying	26
The Role of Adverse Childhood Experiences in the Trajectories to Adulthood of Chinese Youth: A Retrospective Study	22
The Remarriage Belief Inventory: A Validation Study in the Remarried Portuguese Population	20
Advice for New Stepparents From the Perspective of Stepchildren Who Experienced Stepfamily Formation During Adolescence	17
Weathering the Storm: Longitudinal Evidence on Women’s Changing Family Relationships During COVID-19	13
Parenting Immigrants: Understanding How Family Relationships Impact the Wellbeing of Older Chinese Immigrants Living on the Gold Coast, Australia	13
Feminist Mothering and Primary Prevention of Gendered Violence: Insights From Australian Mothers Raising Sons	13
Is it an Impossible Task? Exploring the Lived Experiences of Christian Parents With Young Children in the UK	12
Educational Assortative Mating and Its Impact on Marital Quality in China	11
Attitudes Toward Heterosexual and Lesbian Stepmothers: An Experimental Test in the Italian Context	10
The Effect of Maternal Parenting Attitudes on Family Functioning	10
Imbalanced Sex Ratios and Marital Transitions in Mexico	10
Mothering Black Adolescents: Personal and Adolescent-Experienced Racial Discrimination, Superwoman Schema, and Black American Mothers’ Mental Health	10
Through Their Eyes: “My Mother Hit Me Because I’m a Girl…” The Looking-Glass Self and Parents’ Perception of Childhood Maltreatment	10
Will Adults’ Happiness be Affected by Childhood Parental Divorce? Evidence From China	10
Children’s Contact With Fathers Who Never Co-Resided With Them and Father–Child Relationship Quality at age 9	10
Latent Class of Child-Rearing Values and Their Relationships With Fertility	10
It’s the Thought that Counts: Pregnancy Intention and Relationship Stressors Across SES	10
Infidelity and Anger within Incarcerated Couples: A Brief Report	10
Navigating Parenthood in the Pandemic: Revealing the Trade-offs of Childcare Choices Through Conjoint Analysis	9
“Me Siento Mal”: Mexican and Central American Immigrants’ Narratives on the Emotional Costs of Extended Parental Separation	9
Presence Matters: Perceptions of Emotional and Social Involvement of Black Fathers	9
A Hybrid Model for the Intergenerational Relationship Between Maternal Poverty and Their Young Adult Child’s Self-Esteem	8
Parental Alienating Behaviours Experienced by Alienated Grandparents	8
When Working From Home Fails to Support Work–Life Balance: The Role of Childcare- and Work-Related Demands	8

How Parents Play: Play Style as a Function of Gender of Parent, Gender of Child, and Play Context	8
Acculturation and Resilience Influences from the Latino Fathers’ Perspective	8
The Inverse Association Between Number of Siblings and Divorce: New Evidence From China and Europe	8
Grandparenting and Well-Being of the Elderly in China	8
“Mature Enough to Handle it?”: Gendered Parental Interventions in and Adolescents’ Reactions to Technology Use During the Pandemic	8
Mothers and Others: How Collective Strategies Reproduce Social Norms Around Motherhood	8
Who You Live With Matters: Living Arrangements and Life Expectancy With the Evidence From Eighteen-Year Follow-Up Data	8
Early Life Family Care for and With Migrants: The Development of a Transcultural Transition Mentoring Competence Profile	8
Coparenting Quality During COVID-19: Exploring Gender Differences Using a Mixed Methods Approach	8
The Relationship Between Family Socio-Economic Status and Preschool Children’s Social Competence: The Chain Mediating Role of Family Internal Support and Children’s Empathy	8
Foster Caregiver Experiences: Implications for Retention and Satisfaction	7
Perspectives on Sexual Socialization from a Sample of Black Heterosexual College Women	7
The Racialization of Latino Families	7
Attitudes and Feelings Among Married Mothers and Single Mothers by Choice During the Covid-19 Crisis	7
Portraits of Life After Loss: Understanding Parental Loss Within A Social Context	7
Father Involvement in Asian Families: A Systematic Literature Review	7
Ready for Parenthood? On Intensive Parenting Ideals and Fertility	7
‘We Call It the Square Au Pair’. Exploring Working Mothers’ Experiences of Using Digital Devices as ‘Babysitters’	7
Understanding Military Motherhood: How the Armed Forces’ Childcare and Family Leave Policies Impact Servicewomen with Young Children	7
Reasons and Future Plans of Couples Who Experienced Infidelity and Stayed Together	7
‘It’s Nothing Serious I Suppose’ Family Help-Seeking for Adolescent Social Anxiety	7
A Qualitative Study on How Caribbean Coparents Navigate Communication After Divorce and Separation	7
How to Find Mr/Miss Right? The Mechanism of Search Among Online Daters in Shanghai	6
Quality and Quantity of Grandparent Contact: Associations with Late Adolescents’ Psychological Adjustment	6
Socialization Past and Present: Intergenerational Transmission of Parenting Behaviors in Multispecies Families	6
International Displacement and Family Stress in Latin America	6
Differences in Life Satisfaction and Emotions by Romantic Coupling and Sexual Orientation	6
A Sense of Connectedness in Reproductive Donation. Contrasting Policy With Donor and Donor Kin Lived Experience	6
Exploring the Psychosocial Experiences of Within the Family Adoptees: An initiative for Mental Well-Being	6
Motherhood and Childfree Choice: Accounts of Indian Childfree Women	6
Trends in the Prevalence of Childfree Women in the Philippines, 1993–2022	6
Toward a Transition Transaction Theory: Understanding the Father–Child Relationship	6
The Long-Term Impact of Family Experiences in Adolescence on Mother–Child Relationships in Early Adulthood	6
Exploring Linkages Between Mother–Child and Sibling Relationship Quality and Prosocial Behavior Between School-Aged and Adolescent Siblings	6
“I Would Like to, But My World Wouldn’t End If I Didn’t”: Marital Aspirations Among Sexual Minority Young Adults	6
Racial Disparity in Parenting Practice Among Parents With Young Children	6
“Once You Become a Parent, You are a Parent Forever”: An Examination of Memorable Messages About Having Children and Becoming a Parent	6
Coparenting, Couple Conflict, Social Support, and Relationship Quality: A Dyadic Exploration of Couples From LIEM Backgrounds	6
Parents’ Family Coping Strategies during the Pandemic: Effects on Parent and Child Well-Being	6
Macro-Level Correlates of Early Marriage in Asia	6
‘It’s a Man’s Job’: Doing Gender and Male Gatekeeping in the Division of Household Labor	5
The Heterogeneous Effect of Parental Investment on Old-Age Support: Only Children As the Main Caregivers in China	5
The Impact of Financial Capability on Household Economic Resilience: Perspectives and Insights From China	5
Men’s Marriage Trends in Asia: Changes and Continuities	5
Effects of Intimate Partner Violence Prevention Programming on Social Support, Coparenting, and Parenting Among Teen Parents: A Pilot Study	5
Parents’ Experiences in the Coming Out Process of LGB Individuals: A Focus on Mothers’ Journeys	5
Single Motherhood and Stress in a Kenyan Slum: The Importance of Paternal and Kin Support	5
How Nonreligious Parents Approach the (Non)Religious Socialization of Their Children	5
Family Dynamics in Cross-National Families With Young Children in Singapore	5
Marital Beliefs and Decisions Among Young Chinese Medical Workers	5

Lower-Income Nonresident Fathers’ Self-Perceptions About Their Parenting Quality and Relationships With Children	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
Vulnerability of Poverty between Male and Female Headed Household in Tanzania	5
Families in Multi-Problem Situations in India: Exploration From the Fifth Round of the National Family Health Survey	5
Are Intensive Parenting Attitudes Internationally Generalizable? The Case of Sweden	4
Siblinghood Amongst Older Adults: What Being a Sibling or Having Siblings Means	4
How Important Is Early Paternal Engagement? Deriving Longitudinal Measures of Fathers’ Childcare Engagement and Exploring Structural Relationships With Prior Engagement and Employment Hours	4
Fatherlessness: Black Jamaican Mothers’ Perspectives	4
Abdication of Responsibility for Father–Child Contact in a Group of Black South African Non-resident Father Families: A Systems Perspective	4
Exploring Civil Partnership From the Perspective of Those in Mixed-Sex Relationships: Embracing a Clean Slate of Equality	4
“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 Children	4
Are You Satisfied? Examining Positive Interaction and Satisfaction in Romantic Relationships	4
Gender Equality in the Division of Housework and Fertility Intentions in Canada: The Moderating Effect of Employment and Education	4
Women’s Attitudes Toward Intimate Partner Violence in Sindh, Pakistan: An Analysis of Multiple Indicators Cluster Survey	4
Refugees, Family Dynamics, and Resilience: Integrating Systemic Disruptions and Individual Coping Mechanisms	4
Family Relationships and Young Italian Adults’ Well-Being: The Mediation Role of Mattering	4
The Moderating Role of Parent–Grandparent Co-Parenting in Parental Stress and Mental Health	4
Balancing Work and Care: Exploring the Effects of Women’s Paid Employment on Children’s Development	4
Longitudinal Psychological Family Studies in Austria: A Scoping Review	4
Singleness and the Pandemic Dating Recession	4
The Influence of Work–Family Conflict on Parental Burnout in China: Moderating Effect of Spousal Support and its Gender Differences	4
Children’s Experiences of Lockdown and Social Distancing in the Covid-19 Pandemic	4