Journal of Marriage and Family 75(5)

Journal of Marriage and Family, October 2013: Volume 75, Issue 5

SPECIAL SECTION–Stepfamilies in Later Life

Stepfamilies in Later Life
Suzan van der Pas, Theo G. van Tilburg and Merril Silverstein

Who Is in the Stepfamily? Change in Stepparents' Family Boundaries Between 1992 and 2009
Bianca Suanet, Suzan van der Pas and Theo G. van Tilburg

Complex Families and Late-Life Outcomes Among Elderly Persons: Disability, Institutionalization, and Longevity
Liliana E. Pezzin, Robert A. Pollak and Barbara S. Schone

Parents' Partnership Decision Making After Divorce or Widowhood: The Role of (Step)Children
Jenny de Jong Gierveld and Eva-Maria Merz

Family Structure and Parent–Child Contact: A Comparison of Native and Migrant Families
Anja Steinbach

What Narrows the Stepgap? Closeness Between Parents and Adult (Step)Children in Germany
Oliver Arránz Becker, Veronika Salzburger, Nadia Lois and Bernhard Nauck

Dementia Caregiving in the Context of Late-Life Remarriage: Support Networks, Relationship Quality, and Well-being
Carey Wexler Sherman, Noah J. Webster and Toni C. Antonucci

Coresidence and Geographic Proximity of Mothers and Adult Children in Stepfamilies
Judith A. Seltzer, Jenjira J. Yahirun and Suzanne M. Bianchi

Adult Children's Relationships With Married Parents, Divorced Parents, and Stepparents: Biology, Marriage, or Residence?
Matthijs Kalmijn

Brief Reports

Dating Relationships in Older Adulthood: A National Portrait
Susan L. Brown and Sayaka K. Shinohara

Does Child-Care Quality Mediate Associations Between Type of Care and Development?
Kristin S. Abner, Rachel A. Gordon, Robert Kaestner and Sanders Korenman

Generosity and the Maintenance of Marital Quality
Jeffrey Dew and W. Bradford Wilcox

Of General Interest

Continuity and Change in Mothers' Favoritism Toward Offspring in Adulthood
J. Jill Suitor, Megan Gilligan and Karl Pillemer

Cyclical Cohabitation Among Unmarried Parents in Fragile Families
Lenna Nepomnyaschy and Julien Teitler

Family Instability and the Transition to Adulthood
Paula Fomby and Stacey J. Bosick

Paternal Incarceration and Father–Child Contact in Fragile Families
Amanda Geller

Daily Spillover of Low-Income Mothers' Perceived Workload to Mood and Mother–Child Interactions
Anna Gassman-Pines