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Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Family Studies 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Women’s domestic multitasking: the phenomenon of feminization of unpaid work in Polish households during the COVID-19 pandemic	36
Does routine communication predict marital satisfaction? Between- and within-person effects	29
An integrative review on the reintegration challenges for family members of formerly incarcerated individuals	18
High rates of stability in post-separation care arrangements: examining prevalence and predictors in Germany	16
Comparison of parental aspirations, success pathways and strategies in lower and upper-middle class families in Türkiye	16
Navigating father-child relationships in single mother families: an exploratory narrative analysis	16
‘Undoing gender’ or selection effects?: fathers’ uptake of leave and involvement in housework and childcare in South Korea	15
A conceptual model of parenting children with disabilities	15
Contextualizing the work-family experiences of women in the Nigerian banking industry	14
From work-shy degenerates to deserving housewives? Acceptance of welfare for single mothers in Germany	14
How parenthood shapes the experiences of disclosure for different generations of sexual minority parents	13
A qualitative exploration of the parenting experiences of ex-military fathers diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)	12
Risk or fun? Adolescent attitude towards sexting and parental practices	12
Mothers of young children: adapting to the ideals of joint physical custody in Norway	11
‘We were actually able to sit down and talk’: Australian parents and practitioners navigating dynamics of power and emotion in Family Dispute Resolution	10
Pre-Separation family relationships and post-separation involvement among nonresident fathers in the United States	9
Gender inequalities in the association between parenthood and health	9
Best friends forever and family ties: continuity and change in closeness with parents and friends among Australian adolescents	9
‘It is an endless love that makes you think only of his well-being’ – the experiences and accounts of ‘motherly love’ among Israeli mothers with transgender (trans) children	9
Digital media as a tool for children to stay in touch with non-resident parents in Germany	8
Do younger siblings get to have all the fun? Time use and birth order in Indian children and adolescents	8
‘Are we falling apart?’: manufacturing familyhood through transnationalism	8
Mothering in double crisis: pandemic parenting while homeless	7
Closeness in father-adolescent daughter relationships: a South African study	7
Coping with the absence of parents: growing up in military families in Slovenia	7

Family migration in Chinese superstar cities: are fertility intentions of migrants affected by co-resident parents?	7
(Grand)childlessness and depression across men and women’s stages of later life	6
Differences in economic consequences of union dissolution across gender and ethnic groups in Belgium and Israel	6
When men become fathers, women become project leaders: Swedish parenting practices over time	6
Muggle, Juggle, Snuggle, and Struggle: profiles of parenting experiences of mothers and fathers in South Korea during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Judges’ perspectives on changes in the legal minimum age at marriage in Indonesia	6
Perceptions of parents of youth with disabilities toward school-based parent engagement	6
Work-family decision-making processes at the transition to parenthood: why aren’t heterosexual couples discussing some of the most important decisions of their lives?	6
‘If you restrict my screentime, I won’t talk to you for 20 years!’: experiences of navigating children’s digital worlds as a mother in the UK	6
The correlates of childrearing marital conflict in Mexico according to urban women parenting preschoolers	6
Family dynamics and psychological wellbeing of South Asian migrant youth in Australia	5
The role of eldest sisters within Arab American sibling dynamics	5
The benefits of intergenerational co-residence: reconsidering the effects of women’s education on their housework hours in urban China	5
Separated families’ use of formal and informal childcare across 12 European countries	5
Individual, family and neighbourhood factors related to life satisfaction and perceived discrimination among low-income, non-immigrant mothers in seven European countries	5
Global paternity leave in four multinational corporations: a facilitator of paternal agency?	5
It takes two: digital fatherhood and the ‘Ayah ASI’ community in urban Indonesia	5
Discrepancies in parents’ perceptions of adult children’s well-being: evidence from mother–father–child triads	5
Latino gay men’s disclosure of sexual identity to their fathers: a systematic review	5
What is being a father in Portugal? Examining parental representations and their association with father involvement	4
The flexibility paradox: why flexible working leads to (self-)exploitation	4
‘I’m very happy with where she’s at’: a critical analysis of Australian mothers’ constructions of urban children’s local active mobility practices	4
Redefining parenting among parents of children with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities in Poland	4
‘Crazy Dog-Moms’? Gendering relational dynamics, carework, and pet parenting practices in multispecies Canadian homes	4
The cultural and relational dynamics of family care for older immigrants in Australia	4
Taking turns: lesbian couples’ decision of (first) birth mother in Sweden	4
Fathers stepping up? A cross-national comparison of fathers’ domestic labour and parents’ satisfaction with the division of domestic labour during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Differences in the evaluation and satisfaction with foster care between kinship and non-kin foster carers	4
Book Review of Banerjee, Pallavi. 2022 Book Review of Banerjee, Pallavi. 2022 . The Opportunity Trap: High Skilled Workers, Indian Families, and the Failu	4
‘Will I be lonely when I’m old?’ Childfree women’s alternative narratives of ageing without children in Sweden	4
The loss of a grandchild during pregnancy: an exploration of long-term outcomes for grandparents and their families	4
Home sweet home? Social mobility and multigenerational coexistence in the European Union	3
Has ‘Nordic Turn’ in Japan crystalized?: politics of promoting parental leave take-up among fathers and the divergence from the Nordic system	3
The involution of middle-class tiger moms? An exploration of parental expectations in a Coastal Region of China	3
As sister, as mother: gendered parentification and obligations in large-age-gap sibling families in China	3
‘I am just so bossy’. Gendered constructions around work–family conflicts, time, and care work – evidence from the Icelandic context	3
Care practices in Finnish families with young children: a capabilities approach	3
‘I don't know if I want to have children at some point’: meanings of parenthood and reproductive decisions	3
Accepting social support in single-parent families in Belgium	3
Beyond the agentic individual: rethinking agency in transnational collectivist Filipino families	3
The cognitive labour of being a ‘good’ dad: differential logics and comparative referents in how fathers conceptualize, strategize, and experience the mental load	3
Wives’ enduring responsibility? The exercises and outcomes of gender power in urban Chinese families	3
Single by chance or by choice? The social meanings of singlehood and narratives of choice among unpartnered adults in Israel	3
Breaking with traditions? How parental separation affects adolescents’ gender ideologies in the UK	3
Family and social networks among older people in selected European countries	3
Frictions between familism and neoliberalism: exploring the intergenerational ambivalence narratives of migrant older parents in China	3
Self or children? Navigating intensive mothering ideology and maternal agency for rural-to-urban migrant working mothers in China	3
Towards a fuller understanding of the healing of childhood parental wounds: an international study of adult children’s forgiveness. ‘No matter how deep the hurt’	3
Predictors of father involvement: the influence of the grandfather	3
‘No more secrets, it’s over!’: small stories about late adoption disclosure of Chilean adults	3

Postmaterialism and voluntary childlessness	3
Family experiences with professionals’ health care attention during end-of-life care at home: a narrative study	2
Equal sharing or not at all caring? Ideals about fathers’ family involvement and the prevalence of the second half of the gender revolution in 27 societies	2
Internal migration in Chile and the psychosocial well-being of families-of-origin	2
The family transmission of prejudice toward immigrants. The mediating role of adolescents’ self-transcendence and conservation values	2
Gender differences in understanding of the parental leave system: empirical evidence from Japan	2
Enabling family policies, changing gender norms: increasing childcare and housework among Norwegian fathers from 1980–2010	2
Doing family in three – two partners and an animal companion	2
The childcare gap in Europe: probing policy constructions of work-life balance and parental agency	2
Motivations and challenges of Hmong family, friend, and neighbour caregivers	2
Black women caregivers’ homeplace fortification in response to negative news media	2
Unveiling hidden economic abuse: structural mechanisms of control and the erosion of women's financial independence	2
Defining transnational families across countries and time: an analysis of academic discourse on the phenomenon between 2003 and 2023	2
How does living with a partner affect sleep duration?	2
‘We also need to exist somehow’ – families negotiating everyday ethics during Covid-19 in Denmark	2
Gender differences in marital satisfaction across cultural contexts: does ‘knowing one’s spouse’s friends’ matter?	2
Parents living in poverty and the welfare system: the conditions for trust	2
Being there to care: the impact of a 30-hour work week on social relationships – evidence from a women’s organization in Belgium	2
Trapped in a maze: how social control institutions drive family poverty and inequality Trapped in a maze: how social control institutions drive family poverty and inequality	2
‘An invisible injury’: intrapersonal experiences of adults discovering misattributed paternity	2
The link between formal childcare uptake and subsequent childbearing: evidence for ten European countries	2
Motherhood, role conflict, and identity: South African mothers’ experiences amid a pandemic	2
‘The care crisis within’: gender division of labour and care work in middle-class families in Kerala during the pandemic	1
How are parents involved? Investigating interactions and involvement between Church of England schools and churches with parents	1
Gender-open grandparenting: an exploratory study	1
Let me see and be seen: digital mothering practices assisted by smart cameras	1
Motivations for changing fertility plans and behaviours during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy	1
Between acceptance and rejection: young Europeans’ ambivalent relationship with the procreative norm	1
Blending family culture with screen culture: how young children navigate a post-pandemic world through screens?	1
Living voluntarily without fatherhood: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of childfree men in the Czech Republic	1
More dedicated, more loyal : young men redefining fathering roles and expectations	1
The role of family members as a key factor in university success of Italian and Spanish graduates with disabilities	1
Good normative parenting: towards a non-teleological and relational ideal	1
Transition to grandparenthood and early retirement in midlife	1
Parents’ perspectives on smartphone acquisition amongst 9- to 12-year-old children in the UK – a behaviour change approach	1
A systematic review of intergenerational co-residence between older people and adult children	1
‘The children, the family, the household, and myself, these made the quarantine up for me, and I was really happy with it’ – positive evaluations of the first COVID-19 lockdown among middle-class Hung	1
All hands on deck: exploring how Latinx families in California supported child learning during the initial Covid-19 shutdown	1
Satisfaction with work–family roles and the relationship with working parents’ life satisfaction: a cross-disciplinary perspective	1
Ireland’s paternity leave: sluggish benefit take-up and occupational inequalities	1
Parenting experiences and impacts to wellbeing for South and Southeast Asian migrant caregivers in Australia across the First 2000 Days: reflections from migrants and service providers	1
Parents as partners in education during COVID-19-related school closures in England: challenges and opportunities identified by parents with Pakistani and Bangladeshi heritage	1
Matching, friending, and swiping for sperm donors: an environmental scan of the digital landscape of online sperm donation	1
Expectations and experiences of grandfathers parenting grandchildren: interviews with grandfathers	1
Capturing adolescent journeys: photovoice insights into life with maternal young-onset dementia	1
How mothers manage and make sense of their early adolescent’s interactive screen use: an IPA study in the UK	1
Chinese and Turkish parents’ reflective parenting: accelerating shifts in contemporary parenting during pandemic contexts	1
What’s culture got to do with it? Latino gay men’s perception of their coming out experience	1
Queer stepfamilies: the path to social and legal recognition Queer stepfamilies: the path to social and legal recognition , by Katie L. Acosta, New York, NY, New York Un	1
The challenges and needs of male victims of intimate partner violence in Nigeria: what victims and professionals say	1
Undoing gender in equal-sharing families?	1
Promoting father engagement among low-income fathers: fathers’ narratives on what matters in a fatherhood programme in the western US	1
Flying families between the UK and Nepal: compromised intergenerational care amidst a restrictive migration policy context	1
Introducing dadness	1
Physical custody arrangements and fathers’ post-separation well-being	1
Joint physical custody and mothers’ life satisfaction in Belgium, Finland, and Germany	1
‘Your fatty bum is really ugly!’ Gender, fat-shaming, and beauty-related tensions in contemporary Taiwanese families	1
Education-related cognitive labour in Chinese immigrant families	1
Changing fatherhood: a comparative study of Sweden, Germany and Japan	1
Beyond what meets the eye: loyalty in adolescents’ accounts of the child-stepparent relationship	1
The role of family in Chinese international student mobility under the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Lineage difference in grandmothers’ childcare help and mothers’ parenting stress in urban China	1
An examination of mothers’ sensemaking of ‘mommy drinking culture’	1
‘Why are we even thinking about this?’ Interrogating progressive discourses on LGBT foster parents among institutional representatives in foster care in Iceland	1
Disclosure and expression of gender identities in romantic relationships of trans and non-binary individuals in Chile	1
Young people’s reflections on their experiences of shared care and relationships with their parents	1
‘Making vulnerability’ while negotiating family care practices: evidence from multigenerational living	1
Cisgender men’s narratives about their desires to be pregnant: re/constructing reproduction, gender, and their entanglement	1
COVID-19’s silver linings: exploring the impacts of work–family enrichment for married working mothers during and after the COVID-19 partial lockdown in Ghana	1