Journal of Marriage and Family 74(2)

Journal of Marriage and Family, April 2012: Volume 74, Issue 2

Brief Reports

Spousal Network Overlap as a Basis for Spousal Support  
Benjamin Cornwell

Older Parents Providing Child Care for Adult Children: Does It Pay Off?  
Teun Geurts, Anne-Rigt Poortman and Theo G. van Tilburg

Parents and Children Over the Life Course

Single Mothers' Religious Participation and Early Childhood Behavior  
Richard J. Petts

Life Course Changes of Children and Well-being of Parents  
Matthijs Kalmijn and Paul M. De Graaf

Paternal Child Care and Relationship Quality: A Longitudinal Analysis of Reciprocal Associations  
Pia S. Schober

Farewell to Moms? Maternal Contact for Seven Countries in 1986 and 2001  
Judith Treas and Zoya Gubernskaya

Familism, Interparental Conflict, and Parenting in Mexican-Origin Families: A Cultural–Contextual Framework  
Zoe E. Taylor, Dannelle Larsen-Rife, Rand D. Conger and Keith F. Widaman

Education of Children Left Behind in Rural China  
Yao Lu

Understanding Unique Effects of Parental Incarceration on Children: Challenges, Progress, and Recommendations  
Elizabeth I. Johnson and Beth Easterling

Cohabitation and Marriage

Investments in Marriage and Cohabitation: The Role of Legal and Interpersonal Commitment  
Anne-Rigt Poortman and Melinda Mills

Premarital Cohabitation and Marital Dissolution: An Examination of Recent Marriages  
Wendy D. Manning and Jessica A. Cohen