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The digitalization of family life: A multilevel conceptual framework Journal of Marriage and Family (IF 4.917) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Yue Qian, Yang Hu
The internet and digital technologies have penetrated all domains of people's lives, and family life is no exception. Despite being a characterizing feature of contemporary family change, the digitalization of family life has yet to be systematically theorized. Against this backdrop, this article develops a multilevel conceptual framework for understanding the digitalization of family life and illustrates
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Intermarriage and housing upon separation. A matter of resources and bargaining power? Journal of Marriage and Family (IF 4.917) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Julie Lacroix, Júlia Mikolai, Hill Kulu
ObjectiveThis paper examines post‐separation residential outcomes in immigrant, native, and immigrant–native mixed (married and cohabiting) couples.BackgroundPrevious research showed that women were more likely to leave the family home upon separation than men, indicating a weaker bargaining position.MethodUsing linked survey and register data from Switzerland, we estimate two post‐separation mobility
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Mealtime emotion work: Gendered politics of care and power at the table Journal of Marriage and Family (IF 4.917) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Fairley Le Moal
ObjectiveThis study examined how family members managed emotions ‐ or produced emotion work ‐ during family mealtimes and how this affected eating together in contexts where positive feeling rules, such as expectations of feeling happy together at the table, shaped commensality.BackgroundThe happy family meal ideology is widespread, but few studies have specifically investigated the way emotions are
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Qualitative family research: Innovative, flexible, theoretical, reflexive Journal of Marriage and Family (IF 4.917) Pub Date : 2024-03-09 Abbie E. Goldberg, Katherine R. Allen
Qualitative research is increasingly part of the methodological repertoire of scholars who study families. In this article, we examine contemporary trends, tensions, and possibilities for the interdisciplinary enterprise of qualitative research on and about families. We situate our collaborative approach as critical family scholars who pursue social justice work. We then examine four trends that have
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From flexibility to unending availability: Platform workers' experiences of work–family conflict Journal of Marriage and Family (IF 4.917) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Paul Glavin, Scott Schieman, Alex Bierman
ObjectiveThis article examines whether performing location‐based platform work is associated with greater work–family conflict—and if this association is stronger for those relying on labor platforms for their primary employment.BackgroundDigital labor platforms project a vision of flexibility and improved work‐family balance for workers; however, empirical evidence supporting these promises remains
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I am home. The circle is complete: The reunification of fostered/adopted relatives Journal of Marriage and Family (IF 4.917) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Ashley L. Landers, Sharon M. Danes, Amy A. Morgan, Jessica E. Simpson, Shamora Merritt, Sandy White Hawk
ObjectiveThis study examined the underlying, unseen meanings accompanying the progressive verification of the reunification process experienced by American Indian fostered/adopted relatives who were separated from family of origin as children.BackgroundReunification is most often explored as an outcome (i.e., a result) and few studies examine the process of reunification (i.e., what happens or what
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Latinx LGBTQ+ youth and grandparents: Intergenerational solidarity, precarious familismo, and cisnormativity Journal of Marriage and Family (IF 4.917) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Otis McCandless‐Chapman, Abigail Ottaway, Amy L. Stone, Brandon Andrew Robinson
ObjectiveThis study documents the importance of grandparents for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) Latinx youth and how cisnormativity shapes these relationship dynamics.BackgroundMost research on LGBTQ+ youth's family relations centers on the parent–child relationship. Grandparents are important for racially marginalized families, particularly Latinx families. Additionally, Latinx
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“If I got it, she got it”: Black mothers' food provision and symbiotic mothering Journal of Marriage and Family (IF 4.917) Pub Date : 2024-02-25 Marbella Eboni Hill, Simon E. Fern, Rachel Kimbro, Cayce C. Hughes
This study advances contemporary theories of motherhood, mothering, and foodwork within the context of poverty by focusing on the ways that low-income Black mothers engage interdependent culturally distinct mothering strategies in light of a porous social safety net.
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Using mixed methods approaches to study families and relationships Journal of Marriage and Family (IF 4.917) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Mieke Beth Thomeer, Mia Brantley, Elaine M. Hernandez
Mixed methods research—methodologies that synthesize qualitative and quantitative approaches in the design, collection, analysis, and dissemination of research related to a specific topic or aim—is increasingly common, offering innovative empirical insight into families and relationships. We first elaborate on our definition of mixed methods research, emphasizing that there is significant heterogeneity
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Supervised machine learning for exploratory analysis in family research Journal of Marriage and Family (IF 4.917) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Xiaoran Sun
This article introduces supervised machine learning (ML) for conducting exploratory, discovery-oriented family research in a transparent and systematic way.
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How couples meet and assortative mating in Canada Journal of Marriage and Family (IF 4.917) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Yue Qian, Yang Hu
This study examines, for the first time in Canada, the relationship between how different-sex couples meet and assortative mating on education, race, nativity, and age.
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Theorizing White heteropatriarchal supremacy, marriage fundamentalism, and the mechanisms that maintain family inequality Journal of Marriage and Family (IF 4.917) Pub Date : 2024-02-04 Bethany L. Letiecq
In this article, I draw upon critical feminist and intersectional frameworks to delineate an overarching orientation to structural oppression and unequal power relations that advantages White heteropatriarchal nuclear families (WHNFs) and marginalizes others as a function of family structure and relationship status. Specifically, I theorize that marriage fundamentalism, like structural racism, is a
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Adultification in the context of childhood exposure to domestic violence Journal of Marriage and Family (IF 4.917) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Megan L. Haselschwerdt, Caroline Tunkle
Drawing upon family systems theory, Burton's childhood adultification model, and Johnson's typology of domestic violence (DV), the objective of this qualitative study was to understand the adultification experiences of young adults who were exposed to DV while growing up.
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Women's family trajectories after union dissolution: A comparative life course analysis Journal of Marriage and Family (IF 4.917) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Sergi Vidal, Maike van Damme
Changes in family dynamics due to increased union instability are gathering scholarly attention. Against this backdrop, we asked: How do family life courses evolve after the dissolution of a first union? And, how do these processes vary across socio-historical contexts?
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Intergenerational and digital solidarity: Associations with depressive symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic Journal of Marriage and Family (IF 4.917) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Woosang Hwang, Narges Hadi, Maria T. Brown, Merril Silverstein
We aimed to explore dyadic latent classes of intergenerational solidarity with digital communication (texting, video call, and social media interaction) among older parent and adult child pairs during the COVID-19 pandemic, and whether derived dyadic latent classes were associated with older parents' and adult children's depressive symptoms.
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Rethinking maternal gatekeeping from a life-course perspective: A study of post-separation families Journal of Marriage and Family (IF 4.917) Pub Date : 2024-01-26 Benjamin Moles-Kalt, Núria Sánchez-Mira, Laura Bernardi
The article examines how maternal gatekeeping practices evolve in the post-separation trajectory and identifies the main relational and contextual factors shaping these processes over time.
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“The children don't do enough”: Including children in fairness perceptions of housework Journal of Marriage and Family (IF 4.917) Pub Date : 2024-01-28 Marla I. Sarmiento, Jaehong Hwang, Allegra J. Midgette
The present study set out to investigate how all the members, including children, of nuclear US families conceptualize a fair division of household labor.
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Racial/ethnic differences in living arrangements, distant relations, and later-life mental health Journal of Marriage and Family (IF 4.917) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Jingwen Liu
This research investigates associations between living arrangements and older adults' depressive symptoms and whether these associations are moderated by extended family, friends, and neighborhoods for White, Black, and Hispanic older adults.
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Childlessness and sibling positioning in upward intergenerational support: Insights from Singapore Journal of Marriage and Family (IF 4.917) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Dahye Kim, Christine Ho, Bussarawan Teerawichitchainan
This brief report aims to explore the role of childlessness and its interaction with sibling positioning (i.e., birth order and gender) in upward intergenerational support within the context of Asian familial and patrilineal values.
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“We'll make it work”: Navigating surveilled living arrangements after romantic partner incarceration Journal of Marriage and Family (IF 4.917) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Steven Schmidt, Kristin Turney, Angie Belén Monreal
We use the case of housing insecurity to examine how romantic partner incarceration results in increased and prolonged surveillance of women at home.
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Innovative strategies for increasing sample size and diversity in family science research Journal of Marriage and Family (IF 4.917) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Hannah C. Williamson
To build a robust, replicable, and generalizable family science we must ensure that our research includes samples that are large enough that we can test effects reliably and are diverse enough to speak broadly to families' experiences. This can be challenging for family science researchers who focus on family processes because many of the features of high-quality family process research make the experience
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Measurement opportunities for studying sexual and gender diverse partnerships in population-based surveys Journal of Marriage and Family (IF 4.917) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Christopher A. Julian, Wendy D. Manning, Claire M. Kamp Dush
This article outlines for family scholars and researchers designing surveys or searching for data on sexual and gender-diverse (SGD) families the latest methodological advancements in United States population-based surveys for studying SGD partnerships by reviewing five recently collected, publicly available, population-representative data sets.
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Support matters: How formal and informal institutions shape young Indians' work-family preferences Journal of Marriage and Family (IF 4.917) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Ieva Zumbyte
This study examines the extent to which young people's future employment preferences in India are influenced concurrently by formal workplace policies and informal caregivers' support.
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Using experiments to study families and intimate relationships Journal of Marriage and Family (IF 4.917) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Long Doan, Natasha Quadlin, Katharine Khanna
Social scientists increasingly are using experiments to examine causal processes and mechanisms in their research. Yet, experiments work much better for some research aims than others. Some goals that are of great interest to family scholars, such as testing theoretical arguments, are well-suited to experimental approaches; other goals, such as documenting real-world experiences, may be best served
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State-level safety net spending and educational gaps in maternal time with children Journal of Marriage and Family (IF 4.917) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Margot Jackson, Haoming Song, Ariel Kalil
We examine how state spending on children is associated with the size of socioeconomic gaps in maternal childcare time.
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Family and consensual non-monogamy: Parents' perceptions of benefits and challenges Journal of Marriage and Family (IF 4.917) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Milaine Alarie
This study explores the perspectives of parents in open or polyamorous relationships with regards to challenges and benefits of practicing consensual non-monogamy (CNM).
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How gender shapes sibling tension in adulthood following parental death Journal of Marriage and Family (IF 4.917) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 J. Jill Suitor, Megan Gilligan, Destiny Ogle, Robert T. Frase, Yifei Hou, Catherine Stepniak, Shawn Bauldry
This study investigates gender differences in the effect of parents' deaths on sibling tension among bereaved adult children.
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Societal transitions, ethnolinguistic identities, and marital conservatism in Central Asia Journal of Marriage and Family (IF 4.917) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Victor Agadjanian, Lesia Nedoluzhko
The study deploys an ethnolinguistic conceptual framework to examine variations in different dimensions of marital conservatism in the Kyrgyz Republic, a post-Soviet nation in Central Asia, focusing on enduring, yet evolving, Russian linguo-cultural influence.
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Marital status and happiness during the COVID-19 pandemic Journal of Marriage and Family (IF 4.917) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Hui Liu, Ning Hsieh
This study examines the long-observed marital advantage in happiness during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Extending theoretical explanations for gendered divisions of care during the COVID-19 pandemic Journal of Marriage and Family (IF 4.917) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Stéfanie André, Chantal Remery, Mara A. Yerkes
This article extends pre-pandemic theories, empirically testing the salience of pandemic-based absolute and relative resources and time availability mechanisms for understanding gendered divisions of childcare across the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Coparenting profiles and children's socioemotional outcomes in unmarried parents with low-income Journal of Marriage and Family (IF 4.917) Pub Date : 2023-11-17 Susan Yoon, Joyce Y. Lee, Junyeong Yang, Jingyi Wang, Yiran Zhang, Minjung Kim, Sarah Schoppe-Sullivan
This study aimed to examine patterns of mother–father coparenting relationship quality and their associations with child empathy, emotional insecurity, and behavior problems in families with low income.
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The link between singlehood in young adulthood and effects of romantic separation Journal of Marriage and Family (IF 4.917) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Lonneke van den Berg, Ellen Verbakel
This article aims to uncover long-term effects of singlehood after leaving home by examining whether individuals fare better after separation from their first cohabiting partner if they were not immediately coupled after leaving home.
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Adult sibling relationships: The impact of cohabitation, marriage, separation, and childbearing Journal of Marriage and Family (IF 4.917) Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Zafer Buyukkececi, Beyda Çineli
This study explores how life transitions, such as cohabitation, marriage, separation/divorce, and childbearing, affect three dimensions of full-sibling relationships (contact, intimacy, and conflict).
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Educational experiences and American young adults' childbearing goals: A research note Journal of Marriage and Family (IF 4.917) Pub Date : 2023-11-11 Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Sarah R. Hayford
This research note describes the relationship between young adults' educational experiences and childbearing goals in the United States.
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Cohabiting couple's economic organization and marriage patterns across social classes Journal of Marriage and Family (IF 4.917) Pub Date : 2023-10-27 Kimberly McErlean
Empirically examine whether different economic theories of marriage formation predict the transition from cohabitation to marriage differently across social classes.
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Stepfamily variation in parent–child relationship quality in later life Journal of Marriage and Family (IF 4.917) Pub Date : 2023-10-14 I-Fen Lin, Judith A. Seltzer
We use a family systems approach to examine how stepfamily structure is associated with both positive and negative parent–child relationships while considering mothers' and fathers' discrepant reports.
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Keeping us young? Grandchild caregiving and older adults' cognitive functioning Journal of Marriage and Family (IF 4.917) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Jennifer Caputo, Kathleen A. Cagney, Linda Waite
This study investigates longitudinal associations between providing care to grandchildren and cognitive functioning. It also examines heterogeneity in these relationships.
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Opting out or left out? The gendered determinants of marriage in South Korea Journal of Marriage and Family (IF 4.917) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Paul Y. Chang, Jihye Oh, Young-Mi Kim
This study examines the determinants of marriage decline in South Korea, a representative case of the “demographic crisis” sweeping East Asia.
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Stepfamily formation and the educational outcomes of children in Sweden Journal of Marriage and Family (IF 4.917) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Jonas Helgertz, Anna Tegunimataka
We examine the impact of stepfamily exposure on the educational outcomes of children, considering factors such as age at stepfamily formation, gender of the stepparent, presence of step/half-siblings, and the stepparent's socioeconomic resources.
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Between-sibling inequality in inheritances: Intergenerational support and patrilineality in South Korea Journal of Marriage and Family (IF 4.917) Pub Date : 2023-09-26 Dahye Kim, Jeremy Lim-Soh
This study examines sibling inequality in inheritances and investigates the associations between inheritance share, intergenerational support, and patrilineality, as well as the potential interplay between support and patrilineality.
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Adolescents' experiences with ambiguity in postdivorce stepfamilies Journal of Marriage and Family (IF 4.917) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Christian Fang, Ulrike Zartler
Investigating what contributes to perceptions of ambiguity in stepfamily relationships among adolescents, and which strategies adolescents use to deal with ambiguity.
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Family and religion in flux: Relationship complexity, type of religiosity, and race/ethnicity Journal of Marriage and Family (IF 4.917) Pub Date : 2023-09-19 Jesse Smith
This study examines the links between family formation, relationship history, and multiple types of religiosity in early–middle adulthood, as well as racial/ethnic heterogeneity of these associations.
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Cherished families, unspoken truths: Navigating hidden and challenging family experiences while growing up with LGBTQ parents Journal of Marriage and Family (IF 4.917) Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Abbie E. Goldberg, Katherine R. Allen, Caroline Sanner
This study aims to advance understanding of hidden, complex, and resilient family experiences as perceived by adult children from LGBTQ-parent families.
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Geographic relocation in response to parents' health shocks: Who moves and how close? Journal of Marriage and Family (IF 4.917) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Adriana M. Reyes, Yongxin Shang
This article examines how parent–child geographic proximity changes around the onset of parental health shocks in the United States. Differences in the likelihood of moving closer across social groups are also investigated.
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Negotiating good motherhood: Foodwork, emotion work, and downscaling Journal of Marriage and Family (IF 4.917) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Priya Fielding-Singh, Marianne Cooper
This study examined how lower-income mothers engage in emotion work in order to feel like good mothers within broader contexts of stigmatization, economic insecurity, and precarity.
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Gray divorce and parent–child disconnectedness: Implications for depressive symptoms Journal of Marriage and Family (IF 4.917) Pub Date : 2023-08-31 I-Fen Lin, Susan L. Brown, Kagan A. Mellencamp
Drawing on the divorce-stress-adjustment framework, the authors assessed whether parent–adult child relationship dynamics, including disconnectedness from an adult child, exacerbates the negative impact of gray divorce on parental well-being.
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Parents' socioeconomic status and support to adult children across the life course Journal of Marriage and Family (IF 4.917) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Matthijs Kalmijn
This paper examines how parents' socioeconomic status (SES) affects the support parents give to children and how parents' SES moderates changes in support across children's life courses.
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The evolution of family policies and couples' housework division after childbirth in Germany, 1994–2019 Journal of Marriage and Family (IF 4.917) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Gundula Zoch, Stefanie Heyne
We examine how the re-traditionalization effect of childbirth on couples' division of housework has evolved over time as a result of major family policy change.
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The male marital earnings premium contextualized: Longitudinal evidence from the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom Journal of Marriage and Family (IF 4.917) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Manuel Schechtl, Nicole Kapelle
To examine the effect of marriage entry on annual net rather than gross earnings across different institutional settings.
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Associations between parental precarious work schedules and child behavior problems among low-income families Journal of Marriage and Family (IF 4.917) Pub Date : 2023-08-14 Anna K. Walther, Alejandra Ros Pilarz
This study examined associations between parental precarious work schedules and child behavior problems among a sample of families with low incomes receiving child-care subsidies and tested three hypothesized mediators of these associations: work–family conflict, economic insecurity, and child-care instability.
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Stability and change in predictors of marital dissolution in the US 1950–2017 Journal of Marriage and Family (IF 4.917) Pub Date : 2023-08-14 Michael J. Rosenfeld, Katharina Roesler
Our goal is to measure change over time in the predictors of marital dissolution in the United States.
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Pandemic precarity: COVID-19's impact on Mexican and Central American immigrant families Journal of Marriage and Family (IF 4.917) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Melissa J. García, Caroline V. Brooks, Denise Ambriz, Emily A. Ekl, Nicholas C. Smith, Gerardo Maupomé, Brea L. Perry
This study examines the association of gender, parenthood, and marriage with reports of perceived pandemic precarity among Mexican and Central American immigrants during the COVID-19 pandemic (Fall 2020) to understand predictors of vulnerability in periods of crisis.
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Family resiliency in the aftermath of COVID-19 pandemic: A latent profile analysis Journal of Marriage and Family (IF 4.917) Pub Date : 2023-07-27 Allen W. Barton, Noah B. Larsen, Qiujie Gong, Scott M. Stanley
This brief report was designed to understand resilience in families 2 years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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COVID-19 and the role of gender, earnings, and telecommuting in parents' employment Journal of Marriage and Family (IF 4.917) Pub Date : 2023-07-04 William J. Scarborough, Caitlyn Collins, Liana Christin Landivar, Leah Ruppanner, Matt L. Huffman
To understand how married mothers' and fathers' earnings and ability to telecommute structured their employment throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
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COVID-19 job loss and re-employment among partnered parents: Gender and educational variations Journal of Marriage and Family (IF 4.917) Pub Date : 2023-06-30 Yue Qian, Rebecca Glauber, Jill E. Yavorsky
This study examines the re-employment prospects and short-term career consequences for mothers and fathers who lost their jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Unplanned costs and benefits: Gender and spousal spillover effects of retirement on health Journal of Marriage and Family (IF 4.917) Pub Date : 2023-06-14 Lauren Newmyer, Kendal L. Lowrey, Yuliana Levchenko
Our study assesses how women and men's health indicators are shaped by their spouse's retirement.
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Parental incarceration and parent–youth closeness Journal of Marriage and Family (IF 4.917) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Kristin Turney
The goal of this study is to examine the association between parental incarceration and parent–youth closeness.
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Lesbian and heterosexual Spanish and Swedish couples: Division of labor and life-satisfaction Journal of Marriage and Family (IF 4.917) Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Mar González, Marta Díez, Beatriz Morgado, Andrea Angulo, Francisca López-Gaviño
To compare the distribution of housework and childcare and satisfaction with work-life balance resources among female same-sex and different-sex parenting couples in Spain and Sweden, and their association with life satisfaction.
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Parents' childbearing motivations, parenting, and child adjustment: From pregnancy to 20-months postpartum Journal of Marriage and Family (IF 4.917) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Reut Nachoum, Anat Moed, Nir Madjar, Yaniv Kanat-Maymon
Guided by Self-Determination Theory, the study explored how maternal and paternal prenatal childbearing motivations relate to toddlers' adjustment via parental competence and parenting style.