Journal of Marriage and Family 77(5)

Journal of Marriage and Family, October 2015: Volume 77, Issue 5

Special Section on Asian Families in Context edited by Yingchun Ji

Asian Families at the Crossroads: A Meeting of East, West, Tradition, Modernity, and Gender
Yingchun Ji

Contingent Work Rising: Implications for the Timing of Marriage in Japan
Martin Piotrowski, Arne Kalleberg and Ronald R. Rindfuss

Between Tradition and Modernity: “Leftover” Women in Shanghai
Yingchun Ji

Women's Attitudes Toward Family Formation and Life Stage Transitions: A Longitudinal Study in Korea
Erin Hye-Won Kim and Adam Ka Lok Cheung

Reprivatized Womanhood: Changes in Mainstream Media's Framing of Urban Women's Issues in China, 1995–2012
Shengwei Sun and Feinian Chen

Single and the City: State Influences on Intimate Relationships of Young, Single, Well-Educated Women in Singapore
Karlien Strijbosch

Gender and Children's Housework Time in China: Examining Behavior Modeling in Context
Yang Hu

Brief Reports

The Great Recession, Fertility, and Uncertainty: Evidence From the United States
Daniel Schneider

Gender Composition of Children and the Third Birth in the United States
Felicia F. Tian and S. Philip Morgan

The Changing Association Among Marriage, Work, and Child Poverty in the United States, 1974–2010
Regina S. Baker

Stepfather–Adolescent Relationship Quality During the First Year of Transitioning to a Stepfamily
Valarie King, Paul R. Amato and Rachel Lindstrom

Dimensional Latent Structure of Relationship Quality: Results of Three Representative Population Samples
Sören Kliem, Heather M. Foran, Johannes Beller, Kurt Hahlweg, Yve Stöbel-Richter and Elmar Brähler

Of General Interest

Nonmarital Relationships and Changing Perceptions of Marriage Among African American Young Adults
Ashley B. Barr, Ronald L. Simons and Leslie Gordon Simons

Does Marriage Moderate Genetic Effects on Delinquency and Violence?
Yi Li, Hexuan Liu and Guang Guo

Vetting and Letting: Cohabiting Stepfamily Formation Processes in Low-Income Black Families
Megan Reid and Andrew Golub

The “Cougar” Phenomenon: An Examination of the Factors That Influence Age-Hypogamous Sexual Relationships Among Middle-Aged Women
Milaine Alarie and Jason T. Carmichae

Parental Work Schedules and Child Overweight or Obesity: Does Family Structure Matter?
Daniel P. Miller and Jina Chang

Maternal Work Absence: A Longitudinal Study of Language Impairment and Behavior Problems in Preschool Children
Ragnhild B. Nes, Lars J. Hauge, Tom Kornstad, Markus A. Landolt, Lorentz Irgens, Leif Eskedal, Petter Kristensen and Margarete E. Vollrath

Journal of Marriage and Family 77(4)

Journal of Marriage and Family, August 2015: Volume 77, Issue 4

Brief Reports

Convergence or Continuity? The Gender Gap in Household Labor After Retirement
Thomas Leopold and Jan Skopek

Toward a Standard Approach to Operationalizing Coercive Control and Classifying Violence Types
Jennifer L. Hardesty, Kimberly A. Crossman, Megan L. Haselschwerdt, Marcela Raffaelli, Brian G. Ogolsky and Michael P. Johnson

Intergenerational Relationships

“I'll Give You the World”: Socioeconomic Differences in Parental Support of Adult Children
Karen L. Fingerman, Kyungmin Kim, Eden M. Davis, Frank F. Furstenberg Jr., Kira S. Birditt and Steven H. Zarit

Gay and Lesbian Adults' Relationship With Parents in Germany
Karsten Hank and Veronika Salzburger

Extending the Intergenerational Stake Hypothesis: Evidence of an Intra-individual Stake and Implications for Well-being
Kira S. Birditt, Caroline Sten Hartnett, Karen L. Fingerman, Steven H. Zarit and Toni C. Antonucci

Impact of Genetic Relatedness and Emotional Closeness on Intergenerational Relations
Mirkka Danielsbacka, Antti O. Tanskanen and Anna Rotkirch

Estrangement Between Mothers and Adult Children: The Role of Norms and Values
Megan Gilligan, J. Jill Suitor and Karl Pillemer

How Childhood Circumstances Moderate the Long-Term Impact of Divorce on Father–Child Relationships
Matthijs Kalmijn

Of General Interest

Multigenerational Punishment: Shared Experiences of Undocumented Immigration Status Within Mixed-Status Families
Laura E. Enriquez

Are “Equals” Happier Than “Less Equals”? A Couple Analysis of Similarity and Well-being
Renske Keizer and Aafke Komter

Temporal Ordering of Intimate Relationship Efficacy and Conflict
Matthew D. Johnson and Jared R. Anderson

Health Insurance and Risk of Divorce: Does Having Your Own Insurance Matter?
Heeju Sohn

Income, Relationship Quality, and Parenting: Associations With Child Development in Two-Parent Families
Lawrence M. Berger and Sara S. McLanahan

Longitudinal Mediators of Relations Between Family Violence and Adolescent Dating Aggression Perpetration
H. Luz McNaughton Reyes, Vangie A. Foshee, Beverly L. Fortson, Linda A. Valle, Matthew J.

Journal of Marriage and Family 77(3)

Journal of Marriage and Family, June 2015: Volume 77, Issue 3

Low Income & Non-Resident Fathers

How Much In-Kind Support Do Low-Income Nonresident Fathers Provide? A Mixed-Method Analysis
Jennifer B. Kane, Timothy J. Nelson and Kathryn Edin

Coparenting and Nonresident Fathers' Monetary Contributions to Their Children
Julia S. Goldberg

Father Involvement and Childhood Injuries
Lenna Nepomnyaschy and Louis Donnelly

Effect of Low-Income Unmarried Fathers' Presence at Birth on Involvement
Jennifer L. Bellamy, Matthew Thullen and Sydney Hans

Of General Interest

The Production of Inequality: The Gender Division of Labor Across the Transition to Parenthood
Jill E. Yavorsky, Claire M. Kamp Dush and Sarah J. Schoppe-Sullivan

Getting “Bi” in the Family: Bisexual People's Disclosure Experiences
Kristin S. Scherrer, Emily Kazyak and Rachel Schmitz

Empathic Accuracy and Aggression in Couples: Individual and Dyadic Links
Shiri Cohen, Marc S. Schulz, Sabrina R. Liu, Muhannad Halassa and Robert J. Waldinger

Local Day Care Quality and Maternal Employment: Evidence From East and West Germany
Pia Sophia Schober and Christa Katharina Spiess

Widowhood and Well-being in Europe: The Role of National and Regional Context
Brett Ory and Tim Huijts

Parents' Death and Adult Well-being: Gender, Age, and Adaptation to Filial Bereavement
Thomas Leopold and Clemens M. Lechner

Adolescents' Perceptions of Family Belonging in Stepfamilies
Valarie King, Lisa M. Boyd and Maggie L. Thorsen

Stepchildren's Views About Former Step-Relationships Following Stepfamily Dissolution
Marilyn Coleman, Lawrence Ganong, Luke Russell and Nick Frye-Cox

Intergenerational Exchanges of Middle-Aged Adults With Their Parents and Parents-In-Law in Korea
Kyungmin Kim, Steven H. Zarit, Karen L. Fingerman and Gyounghae Han

Exiting and Returning to the Parental Home for Boomerang Kids
Sara E. Sandberg-Thoma, Anastasia R. Snyder and Bohyun Joy Jang

Journal of Marriage and Family 77(2)

Journal of Marriage and Family, April 2015: Volume 77, Issue 2

Research on Gene-Environment Interactions: An Exchange

Interparental Relationship Sensitivity Leads to Adolescent Internalizing Problems: Different Genotypes, Different Pathways
Gabriel L. Schlomer, Gregory M. Fosco, H. H. Cleveland, David J. Vandenbergh and Mark E. Feinberg

Gene–Environment Interplay: Where We Are, Where We Are Going
Jessica E. Salvatore and Danielle M. Dick

Looking Forward in Candidate Gene Research: Concerns and Suggestions
Gabriel L. Schlomer, H. H. Cleveland, David J. Vandenbergh, Gregory M. Fosco and Mark E. Feinberg

Parenting

Does the Amount of Time Mothers Spend With Children or Adolescents Matter?
Melissa A. Milkie, Kei M. Nomaguchi and Kathleen E. Denny

“I'll Be There for You”: Teen Parents' Coparenting Relationships
Stefanie Mollborn and Janet Jacobs

Parenting Stress, Parental Reactions, and Externalizing Behavior From Ages 4 to 10
Jennifer S. Mackler, Rachael T. Kelleher, Lilly Shanahan, Susan D. Calkins, Susan P. Keane and Marion O'Brien

Grandparenting

Welfare-to-Work Reform and Intergenerational Support: Grandmothers' Response to the 1996 PRWORA
Christine Ho

What About the Grandparents? Children's Postdivorce Residence Arrangements and Contact With Grandparents
Sarah Katharina Westphal, Anne-Rigt Poortman and Tanja Van der Lippe

The Delay of Grandparenthood: A Cohort Comparison in East and West Germany
Thomas Leopold and Jan Skopek

Of General Interest

His, Her, or Their Divorce? Marital Dissolution and Sickness Absence in Norway
Svenn-Åge Dahl, Hans-Tore Hansen and Bo Vignes

Hopelessly Devoted? Relationship Quality During and After Incarceration
Kristin Turney

Effect of Marriage and Spousal Criminality on Recidivism
Signe Hald Andersen, Lars Højsgaard Andersen and Peer Ebbesen Skov

Involvement With Past-Union Children and Couple Childbearing Intentions
Bryndl Hohmann-Marriott

Relationship Preferences Among Gay and Lesbian Online Daters: Individual and Contextual Influences
Gina Potârcă, Melinda Mills and Wiebke Neberich

Intimacy and Emotion Work in Lesbian, Gay, and Heterosexual Relationships
Debra Umberson, Mieke Beth Thomeer and Amy C. Lodge

Source-Country Gender Roles and the Division of Labor Within Immigrant Families
Kristyn Frank and Feng Hou

Family Ties and Young Fathers' Engagement in Cape Town, South Africa
Shelley Clark, Cassandra Cotton and Letícia J. Marteleto

Journal of Marriage and Family 77(1)

Journal of Marriage and Family, February 2015: Volume 77, Issue 1

Communicating Qualitative Research: Some Practical Guideposts for Scholars
Abbie E. Goldberg and Katherine R. Allen

Placing Families in Context: Challenges for Cross-National Family Research
Wei-hsin Yu

Minority Stress and Stress Proliferation Among Same-Sex and Other Marginalized Couples
Allen J. LeBlanc, David M. Frost and Richard G. Wight

The Relationship Between Maternal Education and Children's Academic Outcomes: A Theoretical Framework
Jessica F. Harding, Pamela A. Morris and Diane Hughes

Exploring Ambivalence in Family Ties: Progress and Prospects
Ingrid Arnet Connidis

Challenges and Opportunities for Research on Same-Sex Relationships
Debra Umberson, Mieke Beth Thomeer, Rhiannon A. Kroeger, Amy C. Lodge and Minle Xu

Marginal Structural Models: An Application to Incarceration and Marriage During Young Adulthood
Valerio Bacak and Edward H. Kennedy

Families Under the Microscope: Repeated Sampling of Perceptions, Experiences, Biology, and Behavior
Rena L. Repetti, Bridget M. Reynolds and Meredith S. Sears

Measuring Constructs in Family Science: How Can Item Response Theory Improve Precision and Validity?
Rachel A. Gordon

Family Structure and Child Well-being: Integrating Family Complexity
Susan L. Brown, Wendy D. Manning and J. Bart Stykes

Investigating Family Shared Realities With Factor Mixture Modeling
W. Justin Dyer and Randal D. Day

Social Relations Model Analyses of Perceived Self-Control and Trust in Families
Asuman Buyukcan-Tetik, Catrin Finkenauer, Merel Siersema, Karin Vander Heyden and Lydia Krabbendam

Parental Responsibilities: Dilemmas of Measurement and Gender Equality
Andrea Doucet

Sampling Richness and Qualitative Integrity: Challenges for Research With Families
Kevin Roy, Anisa Zvonkovic, Abbie Goldberg, Elizabeth Sharp and Ralph LaRossa

Do Positive Feelings Hurt? Disaggregating Positive and Negative Components of Intergenerational Ambivalence
Megan Gilligan, J. Jill Suitor, Scott Feld and Karl Pillemer

Handling Missing Values in Longitudinal Panel Data With Multiple Imputation
Rebekah Young and David R. Johnson

The Analysis of Duocentric Social Networks: A Primer
David P. Kennedy, Grace L. Jackson, Harold D. Green, Thomas N. Bradbury and Benjamin R. Karney

Estimates and Meanings of Marital Separation
Dmitry Tumin, Siqi Han and Zhenchao Qian

Journal of Marriage and Family 76(5)

Journal of Marriage and Family, October 2014: Volume 76, Issue 5

Brief Report

Work Hours, Schedules, and Insufficient Sleep Among Mothers and Their Young Children
Ariel Kalil, Rachel Dunifon, Danielle Crosby and Jessica Houston Su

Couple Relationships

Couple Longevity in the Era of Same-Sex Marriage in the United States
Michael J. Rosenfeld

Divorce in Norwegian Same-Sex Marriages and Registered Partnerships: The Role of Children
Kenneth Aarskaug Wiik, Ane Seierstad and Turid Noack

Happy Marriage, Happy Life? Marital Quality and Subjective Well-being in Later Life
Deborah Carr, Vicki A. Freedman, Jennifer C. Cornman and Norbert Schwarz

Living Apart Together and Money: New Partnerships, Traditional Gender Roles
Vicky Lyssens-Danneboom and Dimitri Mortelmans

A Social Network Comparison of Low-Income Black and White Newlywed Couples
Grace L. Jackson, David Kennedy, Thomas N. Bradbury and Benjamin R. Karney

Is the Cohabitation–Marriage Gap in Money Pooling Universal?
Dana Hamplová, Céline Le Bourdais and Évelyne Lapierre-Adamcyk

Family in the Great Recession

Economic Strain and Children's Behavior in the Aftermath of the Great Recession
Lindsey Jeanne Leininger and Ariel Kalil

Private Financial Transfers, Family Income, and the Great Recession
Aaron Gottlieb, Natasha Pilkauskas and Irwin Garfinkel

Of General Interest

Maternal Employment and Parenting Through Middle Childhood: Contextualizing Factors
Cheryl Buehler, Marion O'Brien, Kevin M. Swartout and Nan Zhou

Diet and Exercise in Parenthood: A Social Control Perspective
Corinne Reczek, Mieke Beth Thomeer, Amy C. Lodge, Debra Umberson and Megan Underhill

Reinstitutionalizing Families: Life Course Policy and Marriage in the Military
Jennifer Lundquist and Zhun Xu

Parental Migration and Education of Left-Behind Children: A Comparison of Two Settings
Yao Lu

Journal of Marriage and Family 76(4)

Journal of Marriage and Family, August 2014: Volume 76, Issue 4

Work and Family

Young Women's Job Mobility: The Influence of Motherhood Status and Education
Jessica Looze

Weekend Work and Leisure Time With Family and Friends: Who Misses Out?
Lyn Craig and Judith E. Brown

His and Hers: Economic Factors and Relationship Quality in Germany
Jessica Halliday Hardie, Claudia Geist and Amy Lucas

Parenting

Have Authoritarian Parenting Practices and Roles Changed in the Last 50 Years?
Tatiana Alina Trifan, Håkan Stattin and Lauree Tilton-Weaver

Parents' Relationship Quality and Children's Behavior in Stable Married and Cohabiting Families
Julia S. Goldberg and Marcia J. Carlson

Parenting in Relation to School Dropout Through Student Engagement: A Longitudinal Study
Kristjana S. Blondal and Sigrun Adalbjarnardottir

Dynamic Family System Trajectories From Pregnancy to Child's First Year
Jallu Lindblom, Marjo Flykt, Asko Tolvanen, Mervi Vӓnskӓ, Aila Tiitinen, Maija Tulppala and Raija-Leena Punamӓki

Of General Interest

Can Johnson's Typology of Adult Partner Violence Apply to Teen Dating Violence?
Janine M. Zweig, Jennifer Yahner, Meredith Dank and Pamela Lachman

Trends in Cohabitation Outcomes: Compositional Changes and Engagement Among Never-Married Young Adults
Karen Benjamin Guzzo

Single Motherhood, Living Arrangements, and Time With Children in Japan
James M. Raymo, Hyunjoon Park, Miho Iwasawa and Yanfei Zhou

Nonresident Father Involvement With Children and Divorced Women's Likelihood of Remarriage
Catherine B. McNamee, Paul Amato and Valarie King

Reconfigured Reciprocity: How Aging Taiwanese Immigrants Transform Cultural Logics of Elder Care
Ken Chih-Yan Sun

Journal of Marriage and Family 76(3)

Journal of Marriage and Family, June 2014: Volume 76, Issue 3

Brief Reports

Parental Residential and Partnering Transitions and the Initiation of Adolescent Romantic Relationships
Katya Ivanova, Melinda Mills and René Veenstra

Marital Discord and Subsequent Dissolution: Perceptions of Nepalese Wives and Husbands
Elyse Jennings

Relationship Context of Fertility

Grasping the Diversity of Cohabitation: Fertility Intentions Among Cohabiters Across Europe
Nicole Hiekel and Teresa Castro-Martín

Marriage or Carriage? Trends in Union Context and Birth Type by Education
Christina Gibson-Davis and Heather Rackin

The Decoupling of Marriage and Parenthood? Trends in the Timing of Marital First Births, 1945–2002
Sarah R. Hayford, Karen Benjamin Guzzo and Pamela J. Smock

Marriage and Cohabitation

Cohabitation, Relationship Quality, and Desistance From Crime
Walter Forrest

A Population-Based Study of Alcohol Use in Same-Sex and Different-Sex Unions
Corinne Reczek, Hui Liu and Russell Spiker

Generous or Greedy Marriage? A Longitudinal Study of Volunteering and Charitable Giving
Christopher J. Einolf and Deborah Philbrick

Of General Interest

Modern Traditionalism: Consanguineous Marriage in Qatar
Geoff Harkness and Rana Khaled

How to Deal With Moral Tales: Constructions and Strategies of Single-Parent Families
Ulrike Zartler

Husbands' Participation in Housework and Child Care in India
Nancy Luke, Hongwei Xu and Binitha V. Thampi

Paternal Hostility and Maternal Hostility in European American and African American Families
Ed Y. Wu, Ben T. Reeb, Monica J. Martin, Frederick X. Gibbons, Ronald L. Simons and Rand D. Conger

High Educational Aspirations Among Pregnant Adolescents Are Related to Pregnancy Unwantedness and Subsequent Parenting Stress and Inadequacy
Patricia L. East and Jennifer S. Barber

Family Experiences of Competition and Adolescent Performance
Barbara Lynn Schneider, Gregory Wallsworth and Iliya Gutin

Relationship Satisfaction Trajectories Across the Transition to Parenthood Among Low-Risk Parents
Brian P. Don and Kristin D. Mickelson

Journal of Marriage and Family 76(2)

Journal of Marriage and Family, April 2014: Volume 76, Issue 2

Brief Reports

Two Decades of Stability and Change in Age at First Union Formation
Wendy D. Manning, Susan L. Brown and Krista K. Payne

Intergenerational Exchange and Expected Support Among the Young-Old
I-Fen Lin and Hsueh-Sheng Wu

Intergenerational Relationships

Ambivalence in Older Parent–Adult Child Relationships: Mixed Feelings, Mixed Measures
Jessica P. Lendon, Merril Silverstein and Roseann Giarrusso

Perceptions of Equity, Balance of Support Exchange, and Mother–Adult Child Relations
Jori Sechrist, J. Jill Suitor, Abigail R. Howard and Karl Pillemer

Caregiving

The Transition to Parent Care: Costs, Commitments, and Caregiver Selection Among Children
Thomas Leopold, Marcel Raab and Henriette Engelhardt

Parenthood and Life Satisfaction: Why Don't Children Make People Happy?
Matthias Pollmann-Schult

Does Grandparenting Pay Off? The Effect of Child Care on Grandparents' Cognitive Functioning
Bruno Arpino and Valeria Bordone

Of General Interest

Age at Coresidence, Premarital Cohabitation, and Marriage Dissolution: 1985–2009
Arielle Kuperberg

Estimating the Effects of Parental Divorce and Death With Fixed Effects Models
Paul R. Amato and Christopher J. Anthony

“Where Have All the Good Men Gone?” Gendered Interactions in Online Dating
Derek A. Kreager, Shannon E. Cavanagh, John Yen and Mo Yu

Paternal Incarceration and the Housing Security of Urban Mothers
Amanda Geller and Allyson Walker Franklin

Family Policy and Fertility Intentions in 21 European Countries
Sunnee Billingsley and Tommy Ferrarini

The Long-Term Effects of Building Strong Families: A Program for Unmarried Parents
Robert G. Wood, Quinn Moore, Andrew Clarkwest and Alexandra Killewald

Journal of Marriage and Family 76(1)

Journal of Marriage and Family, February 2014: Volume 76, Issue 1

Brief Reports

Assortative Mating Among Dutch Married and Cohabiting Same-Sex and Different-Sex Couples
Ellen Verbakel and Matthijs Kalmijn

Variation in Associations Between Family Dinners and Adolescent Well-Being
Ann Meier and Kelly Musick

Immigration and the Family Circumstances of Mexican-Origin Children: A Binational Longitudinal Analysis
Nancy S. Landale, R. S. Oropesa and Aggie J. Noah

Gender, Families, and Wages

“Behind Every Great Man…”: The Male Marriage Wage Premium Examined Qualitatively
Sarah Ashwin and Olga Isupova

The Motherhood Penalty at Midlife: Long-Term Effects of Children on Women's Careers
Joan R. Kahn, Javier García-Manglano and Suzanne M. Bianchi

Measurement

Who Is the Residential Parent? Understanding Discrepancies in Unmarried Parents' Reports
Maureen R. Waller and Maggie R. Jones

Identity Versus Identification: How LGBTQ Parents Identify Their Children on Census Surveys
Amanda K. Baumle and D'Lane R. Compton

Relationship Quality and Conflict

Gender Differences in Marital Satisfaction: A Meta-analysis
Jeffrey B. Jackson, Richard B. Miller, Megan Oka and Ryan G. Henry

Marital Conflict in Older Couples: Positivity, Personality, and Health
James Iveniuk, Linda J. Waite, Edward Laumann, Martha K. McClintock and Andrew D. Tiedt

Paths to Intimate Relationship Quality From Parent–Adolescent Relations and Mental Health
Matthew D. Johnson and Nancy L. Galambos

Of General Interest

Proceed With Caution? Parents' Union Dissolution and Children's Educational Achievement
Wendy Sigle-Rushton, Torkild Hovde Lyngstad, Patrick Lie Andersen and Øystein Kravdal

Does Family Instability Make Girls Fat? Gender Differences Between Instability and Weight
Daphne C. Hernandez, Emily Pressler, Cassandra Dorius and Katherine Stamps Mitchell

Indicators of Adolescent Depression and Relationship Progression in Emerging Adulthood
Sara E. Sandberg-Thoma and Claire M. Kamp Dush

Historical Trends in the Marital Intentions of One-Time and Serial Cohabitors
Jonathan Vespa

Families, Resources, and Suicide: Combined Effects on Mortality
Justin T. Denney

Comment and Rejoinder

Maternal Attachment, Paternal Overnight Contact, and Very Young Children's Adjustment: Comment on Tornello et al. (2013)
Paul Millar and Edward Kruk

Rejoinder to Millar and Kruk (2014): Who Assumes the Burden of Proof When There Is No Neutral Null Hypothesis?
Robert E. Emery and Samantha L. Tornello

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

Journal of Marriage and Family 75(4)

Journal of Marriage and Family, August 2013: Volume 75, Issue 4

Relationship Processes

Gender Dynamics Predict Changes in Marital Love Among African American Couples
Christine E. Stanik, Susan M. McHale and Ann C. Crouter

“What Happens at Home Does Not Necessarily Stay at Home”: The Relationship of Observed Negative Couple Interaction With Physical Health, Mental Health, and Work Satisfaction
Jonathan G. Sandberg, James M. Harper, E. Jeffrey Hill, Richard B. Miller, Jeremy B. Yorgason and Randal D. Day

Age-Related Changes in Demand-Withdraw Communication Behaviors
Sarah R. Holley, Claudia M. Haase and Robert W. Levenson

Father–Child Relationships

Wrestling Proteus: Assessing the Varying Nature of Father Involvement Across Contexts
W. Justin Dyer, Randal D. Day and James M. Harper

Families Created by Donor Insemination: Father–Child Relationships at Age 7
Polly Casey, Vasanti Jadva, Lucy Blake and Susan Golombok

Overnight Custody Arrangements, Attachment, and Adjustment Among Very Young Children
Samantha L. Tornello, Robert Emery, Jenna Rowen, Daniel Potter, Bailey Ocker and Yishan Xu

Of General Interest

Wanting Mixed-Sex Children: Separate Spheres, Rational Choice, and Symbolic Capital Motivations
Colleen N. Nugent

Marital Quality, Socioeconomic Status, and Physical Health
Heejeong Choi and Nadine F. Marks

Early Adult Obesity and U.S. Women's Lifetime Childbearing Experiences
Michelle L. Frisco and Margaret Weden

Relationship Transitions Among Older Cohabitors: The Role of Health, Wealth, and Family Ties
Jonathan Vespa

Intergenerational Support and the Emotional Well-being of Older Jews and Arabs in Israel
Merril Silverstein, Ariela Lowenstein, Ruth Katz, Daphna Gans, Yu-Kang Fan and Petrice Oyama

Adolescents' Daily Assistance to the Family in Response to Maternal Need
Kim M. Tsai, Eva H. Telzer, Nancy A. Gonzales and Andrew J. Fuligni

Still the Favorite? Parents' Differential Treatment of Siblings Entering Young Adulthood
Sonja E. Siennick

Race/Ethnicity, Attitudes, and Living With Parents During Young Adulthood
Marcus L. Britton

Relieving the Time Squeeze? Effects of a White-Collar Workplace Change on Parents
Rachelle Hill, Eric Tranby, Erin Kelly and Phyllis Moen

Exploring Parents' Experiences and Reactions to Adolescents' Hyperactivity, Impulsivity, and Attention Problems
Terese Glatz and Håkan Stattin

Intermarriage and Social Support Among Canadians in Middle and Later Life
Margaret Penning and Zheng Wu

Journal of Marriage and Family 75(3)

Journal of Marriage and Family, June 2013: Volume 75, Issue 3

Brief Reports

Measuring Maternal Nonstandard Work in Survey Data
Rachel Dunifon, Ariel Kalil, Danielle A. Crosby, Jessica Houston Su and Thomas DeLeire

Low Birth Weight and Parental Investment: Do Parents Favor the Fittest Child?
Jamie L. Lynch and Ryan Brooks

Education, Marriage, and Marital Stability

Gender and Socioeconomic Status Differences in First and Second Marriage Formation
Kevin Shafer and Spencer L. James

Women's Education, Marital Violence, and Divorce: A Social Exchange Perspective
Derek A. Kreager, Richard B. Felson, Cody Warner and Marin R. Wenger

Special Section on Within-Household Distribution

Researching Within-Household Distribution: Overview, Developments, Debates, and Methodological Challenges
Fran Bennett

Measuring Differences in Living Standards Within Households
Sara Cantillon

Unpacking Within-Household Gender Differences in Partners' Subjective Benefits From Household Income
Jerome De Henau and Susan Himmelweit

Sharing of Resources Within the Family and the Economics of Household Decision Making
Susan Himmelweit, Cristina Santos, Almudena Sevilla and Catherine Sofer

Reflections on a Cross-National Qualitative Study of Within-Household Finances
Charlott Nyman, Lasse Reinikainen and Janet Stocks

Of General Interest

Profiles of Risk: Maternal Health, Socioeconomic Status, and Child Health
Jessica Halliday Hardie and Nancy S. Landale

Marital Quality and Health Over 20 Years: A Growth Curve Analysis
Richard B. Miller, Cody S. Hollist, Joseph Olsen and David Law

Shared Reality and Grounded Feelings During Courtship: Do They Matter for Marital Success?
April C. Wilson and Ted L. Huston

Repartnering Following Divorce: Implications for Older Fathers' Relations With Their Adult Children
Claire M. Noël-Miller

Parental Financial Assistance and Young Adults' Relationships With Parents and Well-being
Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson

Predicting a Partner's End-of-Life Preferences, or Substituting One's Own?
Sara M. Moorman and Megumi Inoue

A Longitudinal Examination of Support, Self-Esteem, and Mexican-Origin Adolescent Mothers' Parenting Efficacy
Adriana J. Umaña-Taylor, Amy B. Guimond, Kimberly A. Updegraff and Laudan B. Jahromi

Nonmaternal Care's Association With Mother's Parenting Sensitivity: A Case of Self-Selection Bias?
Kei M. Nomaguchi and Alfred DeMaris

Core Self-Evaluations, Work–Family Conflict, and Burnout
Victor Y. Haines III, Steve Harvey, Pierre Durand and Alain Marchand

Journal of Marriage and Family 75(2)

Journal of Marriage and Family, April 2013: Volume 75, Issue 2

Brief Reports

Policymakers' Use of Social Science Research: Looking Within and Across Policy Actors
Karen Bogenschneider, Olivia M. Little and Kristen Johnson

Attitudes Toward Divorce, Commitment, and Divorce Proneness in First Marriages and Remarriages
Sarah W. Whitton, Scott M. Stanley, Howard J. Markman and Christine A. Johnson

Effect of Husbands' Employment Status on Their Wives' Subjective Well-being in Korea
Myoung-Hee Kim and Young Kyung Do

Intimate Partner Violence

The Continuation of Intimate Partner Violence From Adolescence to Young Adulthood
Ming Cui, Koji Ueno, Mellissa Gordon and Frank D. Fincham

Why Do We Fail to Ask “Why” About Gender and Intimate Partner Violence?
Kristin L. Anderson

What Comes Before Why: Specifying the Phenomenon of Intimate Partner Violence
Frank D. Fincham, Ming Cui, Mellissa Gordon and Koji Ueno

Genetic Moderation of the Impact of Parenting on Hostility Toward Romantic Partners
Ronald L. Simons, Leslie Gordon Simons, Man-Kit Lei, Steven R. H. Beach, Gene H. Brody, Frederick X. Gibbons and Robert A. Philibert

Marital History, Wealth, and Health

Marriage, Marital History, and Black – White Wealth Differentials Among Older Women
Fenaba R. Addo and Daniel T. Lichter

I've Got You Under My Skin: Marital Biography and Biological Risk
Michael J. McFarland, Mark D. Hayward and Dustin Brown

Grandparent Child Care

Motivations for Providing and Utilizing Child Care by Grandmothers in South Korea
Jaerim Lee and Jean W. Bauer

Child Care and Child Births: The Role of Grandparents in the Netherlands
Fleur Thomese and Aart C. Liefbroer

Of General Interest

Cohabitation in Spain: No Longer a Marginal Path to Family Formation
Marta Dominguez-Folgueras and Teresa Castro-Martin

“Life Still Isn't Fair”: Parental Differential Treatment of Young Adult Siblings
Alexander C. Jensen, Shawn D. Whiteman, Karen L. Fingerman and Kira S. Birditt

Schemas of Marital Change: From Arranged Marriages to Eloping for Love
Keera Allendorf

Can Family Relationships Explain the Race Paradox in Mental Health?
Dawne M. Mouzon

Poverty at a Racial Crossroads: Poverty Among Multiracial Children of Single Mothers
Jenifer L. Bratter and Sarah Damaske

Perceived Economic Uncertainty and Fertility: Evidence From a Labor Market Reform
Barbara Hofmann and Katrin Hohmeyer

Journal of Marriage and Family 75(1)

Journal of Marriage and Family, February 2013: Volume 75, Issue 1

Brief Reports

Relationship Churning, Physical Violence, and Verbal Abuse in Young Adult Relationships
Sarah Halpern-Meekin, Wendy D. Manning, Peggy C. Giordano and Monica A. Longmore

Gendered Divisions of Fertility Work: Socioeconomic Predictors of Female Versus Male Sterilization
Andrea M. Bertotti

Family Environments of Children and Adolescents

Family Time Activities and Adolescents' Emotional Well-being
Shira Offer

Marital Satisfaction, Family Emotional Expressiveness, Home Learning Environments, and Children's Emergent Literacy
Laura C. Froyen, Lori E. Skibbe, Ryan P. Bowles, Adrian J. Blow and Hope K. Gerde

Mothers' and Fathers' Work Hours, Child Gender, and Behavior in Middle Childhood
Sarah Johnson, Jianghong Li, Garth Kendall, Lyndall Strazdins and Peter Jacoby

Family of Origin, Race/Ethnicity, and Socioeconomic Attainment: Genotype and Intraindividual Processes
K. A. S. Wickrama and Catherine Walker O'Neal

Relationship Quality and Instability

Marital and Cohabitation Dissolution and Parental Depressive Symptoms in Fragile Families
Claire M. Kamp Dush

Divorce in Korea: Trends and Educational Differentials
Hyunjoon Park and James M. Raymo

Marital Quality, Gender, and Markers of Inflammation in the MIDUS Cohort
Carrie J. Donoho, Eileen M. Crimmins and Teresa E. Seeman

Past-Year Sexual Inactivity Among Older Married Persons and Their Partners
Amelia Karraker and John DeLamater

Marital Well-being and Religiousness as Mediated by Relational Virtue and Equality
Randal D. Day and Alan Acock

Of General Interest

Pathways of Adult Children Providing Care to Older Parents
Amanda E. Barnett

The Power and Limits of Marriage: Married Gay Men's Family Relationships
Abigail Ocobock

How Older People Position Their Late-Life Childlessness: A Qualitative Study
Ruth E. S. Allen and Janine L. Wiles

Methods for Handling Missing Secondary Respondent Data
Rebekah Young and David Johnson

Intergenerational Transfers to Adult Children in Europe: Do Social Policies Matter?
Martina Brandt and Christian Deindl

Exchange on Parental Incarceration

Misidentifying the Effects of Parental Incarceration? A Comment on
Christopher Wildeman, Sara Wakefield and Kristin Turney

Misidentified or Misunderstood? A Reply to Wildeman, Wakefield, and Turney (2013)
Elizabeth I. Johnson and Beth Easterling

Journal of Marriage and Family 74(5)

Journal of Marriage and Family, October 2012: Volume 74, Issue 5

Alexis Walker—In Memoriam

Research Review

Sibling Relationships and Influences in Childhood and Adolescence
Susan M. McHale, Kimberly A. Updegraff and Shawn D. Whiteman

Brief Reports

Three-Generation Family Households: Differences by Family Structure at Birth
Natasha V. Pilkauskas

The Division of Household Labor: Longitudinal Changes and Within-Couple Variation
Chun Bun Lam, Susan M. McHale and Ann C. Crouter

Intimate Relationships

Marriage, Cohabitation, and Happiness: A Cross-National Analysis of 27 Countries
Kristen Schultz Lee and Hiroshi Ono

The Stability of Same-Sex Cohabitation, Different-Sex Cohabitation, and Marriage
Charles Q. Lau

Developmental Patterns in Marital Satisfaction: Another Look at Covenant Marriage
Alfred DeMaris, Laura A. Sanchez and Kristi Krivickas

Relations Among Intimate Partner Violence, Maternal Depressive Symptoms, and Maternal Parenting Behaviors
Hanna C. Gustafsson and Martha J. Cox, The Family Life Project Key Investigators

Interethnic Romantic Relationships: Enacting Affiliative Ethnic Identities
Carrie Yodanis, Sean Lauer and Risako Ota

Jackpot? Gender Differences in the Effects of Lottery Wins on Separation
Diederik Boertien

Intergenerational Relations

Transactional and Cascading Relations Between Early Spanking and Children's Social-Emotional Development
Andrea N. Gromoske and Kathryn Maguire-Jack

Mexican-Origin Mothers' and Fathers' Involvement in Adolescents' Peer Relationships: A Pattern-Analytic Approach
Kimberly A. Updegraff, Norma J. Perez-Brena, Megan E. Baril, Susan M. McHale and Adriana J. Umaña-Taylor

Political Activism of Palestinian Youth: Exploring Individual, Parental, and Ecological Factors
Carolyn R. Spellings, Brian K. Barber and Joseph A. Olsen

Ambivalence Toward Adult Children: Differences Between Mothers and Fathers
Karl Pillemer, Christin L. Munsch, Thomas Fuller-Rowell, Catherine Riffin and J. Jill Suitor

The Structure of Intergenerational Relations in Rural China: A Latent Class Analysis
Man Guo, Iris Chi and Merril Silverstein

Incarceration and Family Life

Using Mixture Regression to Identify Varying Effects: A Demonstration With Paternal Incarceration
W. Justin Dyer, Joseph Pleck and Brent McBride

Those They Leave Behind: Paternal Incarceration and Maternal Instrumental Support
Kristin Turney, Jason Schnittker and Christopher Wildeman

Childlessness and Unintended Births

Does the Reason Matter? Variations in Childlessness Concerns Among U.S. Women
Julia McQuillan, Arthur L. Greil, Karina M. Shreffler, Patricia A. Wonch-Hill, Kari C. Gentzler and John D. Hathcoat

Pregnancy Intentions and Parents' Psychological Well-Being
Jessica Houston Su

Journal of Marriage and Family 74(4)

Journal of Marriage and Family, August 2012: Volume 74, Issue 4

Brief Report

Working on the Weekend: Fathers' Time With Family in the United Kingdom
Jennifer L. Hook

Exchange on Qualitative Research

Writing and Reviewing Manuscripts in the Multidimensional World of Qualitative Research
Ralph LaRossa

In Search of a Culture: Navigating the Dimensions of Qualitative Research
Kevin M. Roy

Enhancing the Qualitative-Research Culture in Family Studies
Sarah H. Matthews

Using the Terms Hypothesis and Variable for Qualitative Work: A Critical Reflection
Annette Lareau

Thinking About the Nature and Scope of Qualitative Research
Ralph LaRossa

Cohabitation and Marriage

Reassessing Differences in Work and Income in Cohabitation and Marriage
Arielle Kuperberg

The Tempo of Sexual Activity and Later Relationship Quality
Sharon Sassler, Fenaba R. Addo and Daniel T. Lichter

Marriage Expectations Among African American Couples in Early Adulthood: A Dyadic Analysis
Ashley B. Barr and Ronald L. Simons

Deviations From Desired Age at Marriage: Mental Health Differences Across Marital Status
Daniel L. Carlson

Becoming a Parent and Relationship Satisfaction: A Longitudinal Dyadic Perspective
Renske Keizer and Niels Schenk

Transitions Into and Out of Cohabitation in Later Life
Susan L. Brown, Jennifer Roebuck Bulanda and Gary R. Lee

Cohabitation and U.S. Adult Mortality: An Examination by Gender and Race
Hui Liu and Corinne Reczek

Of General Interest

The Division of Labor in Lesbian, Gay, and Heterosexual New Adoptive Parents
Abbie E. Goldberg, JuliAnna Z. Smith and Maureen Perry-Jenkins

The Burden of Deportation on Children in Mexican Immigrant Families
Joanna Dreby

Consequences of Teen Parents' Child-Care Arrangements for Mothers and Children
Stefanie Mollborn and Casey Blalock

Young Adults' Fertility Expectations and Events: Associations With College Enrollment and Persistence
R. Kelly Raley, Yujin Kim and Kimberly Daniels

Helicopter Parents and Landing Pad Kids: Intense Parental Support of Grown Children
Karen L. Fingerman, Yen-Pi Cheng, Eric D. Wesselmann, Steven Zarit, Frank Furstenberg and Kira S. Birditt

Family Roles as Moderators of the Relationship Between Schedule Flexibility and Stress
Soo Jung Jang, Allison Zippay and Rhokeun Park

Journal of Marriage and Family 74(3)

Journal of Marriage and Family, June 2012: Volume 74, Issue 3

Brief Reports

Relationship Quality in Marital and Cohabiting Unions Across Europe
Kenneth Aarskaug Wiik, Renske Keizer and Trude Lappegård

The Legacy of Leaving Home: Long-Term Effects of Coresidence on Parent – Child Relationships
Thomas Leopold

Marriage

What's (Not) Wrong With Low-Income Marriages
Thomas E. Trail and Benjamin R. Karney

All Shook Up: Sexuality of Mid- to Later Life Married Couples
Amy C. Lodge and Debra Umberson

Social Isolation and Spousal Violence: Comparing Female Marriage Migrants With Local Women
Susanne Y. P. Choi, Y. W. Cheung and Adam K. L. Cheung

Do the Married Really Live Longer? The Role of Cohabitation and Socioeconomic Status
Sven Drefahl

Intergenerational Relationships

Assessing Causality and Persistence in Associations Between Family Dinners and Adolescent Well-Being
Kelly Musick and Ann Meier

Impact of Widowhood on Parent–Child Relations: Does Parents' Personality Matter?
Manacy Pai and Jung-Hwa Ha

A Vignette Study on Gendered Filial Expectations of Elders in Rural China
Zhen Cong and Merril Silverstein

Family Formation and Family Structure

The Role of Pre- and Postconception Relationships for First-Time Parents
Heather Rackin and Christina M. Gibson-Davis

The Intergenerational Continuity of Fathers' Absence in a Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Sample
Erin Pougnet, Lisa A. Serbin, Dale M. Stack, Jane E. Ledingham and Alex E. Schwartzman

Same-Sex Parent Families and Children's Academic Achievement
Daniel Potter

Of General Interest

Racial Differences in Exposure and Reactivity to Daily Family Stressors
Kelly E. Cichy, Robert S. Stawski and David M. Almeida

The Attitude Toward Voluntary Childlessness in Europe: Cultural and Institutional Explanations
Eva-Maria Merz and Aart C. Liefbroer

HIV Prevention and Social Desirability: Husband–Wife Discrepancies in Reports of Condom Use
Julia Cordero-Coma and Richard Breen

Institutional and Demographic Explanations of Women's Employment in 18 OECD Countries, 1975–1999
Rense Nieuwenhuis, Ariana Need and Henk Van Der Kolk

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

Journal of Marriage and Family 74(1)

Journal of Marriage and Family, February 2012: Volume 74, Issue 1

Marriage

Reexamining the Case for Marriage: Union Formation and Changes in Well-being
Kelly Musick and Larry Bumpass

Marriage and Desistance From Crime: A Consideration of Gene–Environment Correlation
J. C. Barnes and Kevin M. Beaver

Marriage (In)equality: The Perspectives of Adolescents and Emerging Adults With Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Parents
Abbie E. Goldberg and Katherine A. Kuvalanka

Variation in the Relationship Between Education and Marriage: Marriage Market Mismatch?
Kelly Musick, Jennie E. Brand and Dwight Davis

Family Influences on Intermarriage Attitudes: A Sibling Analysis in the Netherlands
Willem Huijnk and Aart C. Liefbroer

I Do … Want to Save: Marriage and Retirement Savings in Young Households
Melissa A. Z. Knoll, Christopher R. Tamborini and Kevin Whitman

Intergenerational Relationships

Life Course Status and Exchanges of Support Between Young Adults and Parents
Freek Bucx, Frits van Wel and Trudie Knijn

Gender and Material Transfers Between Older Parents and Children in Ismailia, Egypt
Kathryn M. Yount, Solveig A. Cunningham, Michal Engelman and Emily M. Agree

“I'm Not Supporting His Kids”: Nonresident Fathers' Contributions Given Mothers' New Fertility
Daniel R. Meyer and Maria Cancian

Neighborhood Contexts, Fathers, and Mexican American Young Adolescents' Internalizing Symptoms
Rebecca M. B. White and Mark W. Roosa

Of General Interest

Adolescents' Pregnancy Intentions, Wantedness, and Regret: Cross-Lagged Relations With Mental Health and Harsh Parenting
Patricia L. East, Nina C. Chien and Jennifer S. Barber

Domestic Work and the Wage Penalty for Motherhood in West Germany
Michael Kühhirt and Volker Ludwig

Mate Availability and Women's Sexual Experiences in China
Katherine Trent and Scott J. South

Familial Reciprocity and Subjective Well-being in Ghana
Ming-Chang Tsai and Dan-Bright S. Dzorgbo