Journal of Family Studies

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Bursting bubbles: the role of companion animals in the regulation of childhood innocence Children across the globe grow up around animals. Children who live with animals are often exposed to experiences that U.S. parents – many of whom uphold the ideology of childhood innocence – may s...

Bursting bubbles: the role of companion animals in the regulation of childhood innocence
• Kuchirko et al
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Being there to care: the impact of a 30-hour work week on social relationships – evidence from a women’s organization in Belgium Looking into a 30-hour work week trial in a women’s organization in Belgium, this paper investigates how the time for intimate family relationships has changed going into a shorter work week and ho...

Being there to care: the impact of a 30-hour work week on social relationships - evidence from a women's organization in Belgium
• Mullens and Glorieux
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Education-related cognitive labour in Chinese immigrant families While the cognitive dimension of family work has received considerable scholarly attention, one of the aspects unaccounted for is couples’ mental efforts in promoting children’s social and intellec...

Education-related cognitive labour in Chinese immigrant families • Niu
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Parenting experiences and impacts to wellbeing for South and Southeast Asian migrant caregivers in Australia across the First 2000 Days: reflections from migrants and service providers The First 2000 Days are a key period for children’s development. Stressors experienced during this period – including stressors experienced by parents – may predict children’s future wellbeing outc...

Parenting experiences and impacts to wellbeing for South and Southeast Asian migrant caregivers in Australia across the First 2000 Days: reflections from migrants and service providers
• Aiyar et al
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Tracking ambivalence in family definitions at different stages of the family life cycle The article investigates how definitions of family differ at subsequent stages of the family life cycle (FLC) in Poland, where multiple framings of family collide. Highlighting temporal changes in ...

Tracking ambivalence in family definitions at different stages of the family life cycle • Pustulka and Sikorska
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Brothers in arms: working-class men, social mobility and fraternal bonds Sibling comparisons have always been an integral aspect to how we understand social mobility and family life. As individuals become socially mobile, this often involves taking a path less travelled...

Brothers in arms: working-class men, social mobility and fraternal bonds • Stahl, Nguyen and Fairbairn
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New articles published in @jfamstudies.bsky.social discuss fraternal bonds among working-class men, parenting experiences among migrant caregivers, and companion animals vis a vis childhood innocence! Want to read more? Take a look at our latest via our website! www.tandfonline.com/journals/rjf...

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‘An invisible injury’: intrapersonal experiences of adults discovering misattributed paternity Millions of people grow up unaware of their true biogenetic origin due to misattributed paternity. Although this phenomenon is as old as humanity, no qualitative studies have been dedicated to the ...

An invisible injury’: intrapersonal experiences of adults discovering misattributed paternity
Alyona Cerfontyne, IcLevita D’Souza & Lefteris Patlamazoglou
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Serial mediation of intergenerational conflict and life adaptation on AFD and mental health among mother–child dyads in interethnic marriage immigrant families in Taiwan Although there is numerous empirical support for the concept of acculturative family distancing (AFD) or acculturation gaps, research has mainly focused on immigrant families in intraethnic marriag...

Serial mediation of intergenerational conflict and life adaptation on AFD and mental health among mother–child dyads in interethnic marriage immigrant families in Taiwan | Chuan-Chuan Cheng
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Chinese and Turkish parents’ reflective parenting: accelerating shifts in contemporary parenting during pandemic contexts During the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly during periods of quarantine, parents and children were sometimes together in ways which contrasted their pre-pandemic life. This paper uses a reflective ...

Chinese and Turkish parents’ reflective parenting: accelerating shifts in contemporary parenting during pandemic contexts | Lehner-Mear et al 🔓 Open Access
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‘I’m very happy with where she’s at’: a critical analysis of Australian mothers’ constructions of urban children’s local active mobility practices The prevalence of physical inactivity among children is a key concern shaping public health promotion, policy and research. Parental practices surrounding children’s transition to independent mobil...

‘I’m very happy with where she’s at’: a critical analysis of Australian mothers’ constructions of urban children’s local active mobility practices | Whitley et al 🔓 Open Access

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Becoming an ‘almost normal family’: fostering young male refugees as a space of doing, normalizing and transgressing family This article analyses how family is negotiated in fostering young unaccompanied male refugees in Austria. Adopting a praxeological perspective of ‘doing family’ the paper focusses on how family nor...

Becoming an ‘almost normal family’: fostering young male refugees as a space of doing, normalizing and transgressing family | Paul Scheibelhofer
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‘We are earning peanuts’: fatherhood and precarity among car guards in Cape Town, South Africa Poverty and unemployment are cited as some of the factors impacting men’s fathering practices and involvement in their children’s lives. However, the ways in which these factors shape fatherhood ac...

‘We are earning peanuts’: fatherhood and precarity among car guards in Cape Town, South Africa
Mandisa Malinga, Katya Kee-Tui and Tanian Walsh

Disclosure and expression of gender identities in romantic relationships of trans and non-binary individuals in Chile The disclosure and expression of trans and non-binary gender identities introduce unique complexities and stressors to romantic relationships, affecting each partner and the relationship itself in ...

Disclosure and expression of gender identities in romantic relationships of trans and non-binary individuals in Chile
Marais del Rio, Jaime Barrientos and Dariela Sharim

When men become fathers, women become project leaders: Swedish parenting practices over time The gendered division of housework and care has long been a key topic in family research. In this qualitative study, the aim is to deepen the knowledge of parents’ division of labour by exploring h...

When men become fathers, women become project leaders: Swedish parenting practices over time
Jenny Alsarve and Terese Glatz

Mothering in double crisis: pandemic parenting while homeless The global COVID-19 pandemic had widespread effects on children and families. It also presented a ‘double crisis’ for many parents, disproportionately women of colour, who were mothering through a ...

Mothering in double crisis: pandemic parenting while homeless
Alexandra E. Pavlakis, J. Kessa Roberts, Maria Jose Hernandez and Meredith P. Richards

Intensive mothering—Different repertoires, same goal Intensive parenting has become the dominant standard in economically advanced countries and has recently spread across various socioeconomic and ethnic groups. However, more knowledge is needed to ...

Intensive mothering—Different repertoires, same goal
Hana Hašková and Radka Dudová

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Intensification of traditional mothering ideals in migration contexts: low-income Mainland Chinese cross-border mothers in Hong Kong Research on migration and mothering has primarily focused on how migration reframes motherhood. Mothers are expected to be the primary caregivers and prioritise their children’s wellbeing over thei...

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First acceptance in 2025! Dr. Wai-chi Chee and I conducted this qualitative study back in 2018 to understand the predicaments of low-income Chinese migrant mothers living in Hong Kong with a temporary visa. The paper will be published in @jfamstudies.bsky.social soon!

Recent @jfamstudies.bsky.social publication by Clare Stovell is circulating in the press! Drawing on qualitative interviews with 25 heterosexual professional couples in the UK, this paper explores work-family decisions at the transition to parenthood! Read more here doi.org/10.1080/1322...

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