Journal of Marriage and Family publishes research and theory, research interpretation and reviews, and critical discussion on all aspects of marriage, close relationships, and families. It is a journal of the National Council on Family Relations. For more than 70 years, Journal of Marriage and Family (JMF) has been a leading research journal in the family field. JMF features original research and theory, research interpretation and reviews, and critical discussion concerning all aspects of marriage, other forms of close relationships, and families.
Eating together as a family is commonly thought of as being healthy for family members and is a ritual many try to live up to. However, research into understanding family meals more thoroughly shows that different aspects ...
Social Sciences
Apr 5, 2024
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Despite the many challenges they face, slightly more than half of unmarried low-income couples with children have positive co-parenting relationships, a new study found.
Social Sciences
Nov 27, 2023
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In the toughest days of the pandemic, many dual-income families made the difficult choice to drop down to one income.
Social Sciences
Sep 4, 2023
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While most people have continued to live close to family as they pursue educational and job opportunities, high-income white people have moved farther from family over time, according to a recent study from Georgia State ...
Social Sciences
May 31, 2023
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Adult children are over four times more likely to be estranged from their fathers than their mothers, a new long-term national study found.
Social Sciences
Dec 15, 2022
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A dramatic shift toward remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic caused telecommuting parents in the United States to spend significantly more time "parenting" their children in the first year of the pandemic than they did ...
Social Sciences
Dec 13, 2022
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Child-support policies that are color-blind or race-neutral put low-income men of color and their families at a disadvantage and lead to continued racial inequities, according to Rutgers research.
Economics & Business
Jun 13, 2022
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A study led by a sociologist at Trinity College Dublin has found that stress caused by poverty directly impacts children. The findings contradict mainstream theoretical models of poverty which hold that economic pressure ...
Social Sciences
Feb 10, 2022
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Multiracial children's experiences of family instability differ significantly depending on whether their parents were married when the child was born, a new international study published in the Journal of Marriage and Family ...
Social Sciences
Apr 22, 2021
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An expansion of parental benefits in Quebec 15 years ago revolutionized the province's labour force—the intended outcome—but it also saved some marriages, a Western study has found.
Social Sciences
Jan 13, 2021
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