Journal of Marriage and Family 73(1)

Minisymposium on Marital Satisfaction Among New Mothers

If Momma Ain't Happy: Explaining Declines in Marital Satisfaction Among New Mothers
Jeffrey Dew and W. Bradford Wilcox

Declines in Marital Satisfaction Among New Mothers: Broad Strokes Versus Fine Details
Mari L. Clements, Sarah E. Martin, Amanda K. Cassil and Niveen N. Soliman

Social and Cultural Resources for and Constraints on New Mothers' Marriages
Melissa A. Milkie

The Transition to Parenthood and the Reasons “Momma Ain't Happy”
Maureen Perry-Jenkins and Amy Claxton

Motherhood and Marriage: A Response
W. Bradford Wilcox and Jeffrey Dew


Low-Income Families

Do Children's Behavior Problems Limit Poor Women's Labor Market Success?
Rebekah Levine Coley, David Ribar and Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal

Cohabitation and Children's Externalizing Behavior in Low-Income Latino Families
Paula Fomby and Angela Estacion

Associations of Low-Income Working Mothers' Daily Interactions With Supervisors and Mother-Child Interactions
Anna Gassman-Pines


Middle and Later Life Families

Help to Family and Friends: Are There Gender Differences at Older Ages?
Joan R. Kahn, Brittany S. McGill and Suzanne M. Bianchi

Intergenerational Exchange Between Parents and Migrant and Nonmigrant Sons in Rural China
Zhen Cong and Merril Silverstein

Short-Term Reciprocity in Late Parent-Child Relationships
Thomas Leopold and Marcel Raab

Coresidence With Elderly Parents: A Comparative Study of Southeast China and Taiwan
C. Y. Cyrus Chu, Yu Xie and Ruoh Rong Yu

Intergenerational Coresidence and Family Transitions in the United States, 1850–1880
Steven Ruggles


Children's Health and Well-Being

Chronic and Proximate Depression Among Mothers: Implications for Child Well-Being
Kristin Turney

Parental Depression and Child Outcomes: The Mediating Effects of Abuse and Neglect
Sarah A. Mustillo, Shannon Dorsey, Kate Conover and Barbara J. Burns

The Child Health Disadvantage of Parental Cohabitation
Kammi K. Schmeer

The Consequences of Parental Underestimation and Overestimation of Youth Exposure to Violence
Gregory M. Zimmerman and Greg Pogarsky

Mothers, Fathers, Peers, and Mexican-Origin Adolescents' Sexual Intentions
Sarah E. Killoren, Kimberly A. Updegraff, F. Scott Christopher and Adriana J. Umaña-Taylor

Observed Infant Reactions During Live Interparental Conflict
Tina D. Du Rocher Schudlich, Clare R. White, Emily A. Fleischhauer and Kelly A. Fitzgerald

Time Does Not Heal All Wounds: Mortality Following the Death of a Parent
Mikael Rostila and Jan M. Saarela


Of General Interest

Wives' Relative Wages, Husbands' Paid Work Hours, and Wives' Labor-Force Exit
Emily Fitzgibbons Shafer

Mothers but Not Wives: The Increasing Lag Between Nonmarital Births and Marriage
Christina Gibson-Davis

Life-Course Pathways and the Psychosocial Adjustment of Young Adult Women
Paul R. Amato and Jennifer B. Kane

Coparenting and Father Involvement in Married and Unmarried Coresident Couples
Bryndl Hohmann-Marriott


Journal of Marriage and Family, February 2011: Volume 73, Issue 1