Journal of Marriage and Family 73(2)

Families With Young Children

Couples as Partners and Parents Over Children's Early Years
Marcia J. Carlson, Natasha V. Pilkauskas, Sara S. McLanahan and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

Fathers' Early Emotion Talk: Associations With Income, Ethnicity, and Family Factors
Patricia Garrett-Peters, Roger Mills-Koonce, Stephanie Zerwas, Martha Cox and Lynne Vernon-Feagans, The Family Life Project Key Investigators

Doing the Scut Work of Infant Care: Does Religiousness Encourage Father Involvement?
Alfred DeMaris, Annette Mahoney and Kenneth I. Pargament

Parents and Children in the Adult Years

Long-Term Influences of Intergenerational Ambivalence on Midlife Parents' Psychological Well-being
K. Jill Kiecolt, Rosemary Blieszner and Jyoti Savla

Why Do Families Differ? Children's Care for an Unmarried Mother
John C. Henretta, Beth J. Soldo and Matthew F. Van Voorhis

Patterns of Stepchild–Stepparent Relationship Development
Lawrence H. Ganong, Marilyn Coleman and Tyler Jamison

Family Support

Safety Nets and Scaffolds: Parental Support in the Transition to Adulthood
Teresa Toguchi Swartz, Minzee Kim, Mayumi Uno, Jeylan Mortimer and Kirsten Bengtson O'Brien

Relationship Status and Activated Kin Support: The Role of Need and Norms
Joan Maya Mazelis and Laryssa Mykyta

Social Support, Unfulfilled Expectations, and Affective Well-being on Return to Employment
Christine P. Seiger and Bettina S. Wiese

Of General Interest

Opting Out and Buying Out: Wives' Earnings and Housework Time
Alexandra Killewald

Adolescent Sexuality and the Risk of Marital Dissolution
Anthony Paik

Risk Factors for Clinically Significant Intimate Partner Violence Among Active-Duty Members
Amy M. Smith Slep, Heather M. Foran, Richard E. Heyman and Jeffery D. Snarr, U.S. Air Force Family Advocacy Program

Lesbian, Gay, and Heterosexual Couples in Open Adoption Arrangements: A Qualitative Study
Abbie E. Goldberg, Lori A. Kinkler, Hannah B. Richardson and Jordan B. Downing

Journal of Marriage and Family, April 2011: Volume 73, Issue 2