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{"title":"Children's voices on parental visits in long-term foster care","authors":"Céline Cannaert,&nbsp;Lieselot De Wilde","doi":"10.1111/fare.70132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/fare.70132","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Objective</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study explores how children experience and navigate parental visits in long-term foster care.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Background</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Parental visits are central to shared parenthood in foster care, yet little research has examined how children interpret and engage with these visits. Understanding their perspectives is essential for shaping visitation policies that support their well-being.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Method</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This longitudinal qualitative study followed 14 children (aged 6–16) in long-term foster care over 18 to 24 months through three rounds of in-depth interviews, including dyadic interviews with their foster care workers. It examines how children assign meaning to visits, what opportunities they have to shape these experiences, and the limitations they encounter.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Results</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Meaningful visits involve interactions that align with children's interests and their parents' circumstances. Children navigate visits using active and passive strategies, expressing emotions, adapting behaviors, or selectively sharing information. Their experiences evolve over time, shaped by personal interests, changing family dynamics, and institutional visitation structures.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Conclusion</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>While children exercise agency during and outside visits, institutional structures often constrain their ability to shape these experiences. Recognizing these dynamics is crucial for fostering meaningful connections and enhancing visitation practices.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Implications</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Findings suggest that visitation policies should involve children in negotiating visits, especially in voluntary placements, and support foster care workers to act flexibly with sensitive responsiveness to children's needs and capacities. Such policy-driven flexibility can enhance children's agency and meaningful participation in visits, while accommodating their personal interests, relational dynamics, and institutional constraints.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48206,"journal":{"name":"Family Relations","volume":"75 2","pages":"865-885"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147653335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Gender attitudes, women's intra-household decision-making power, and fertility intentions","authors":"Xiaojun Yang,&nbsp;Ying Yue,&nbsp;Jie Ma","doi":"10.1111/fare.70081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/fare.70081","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Objective</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study examined how gender attitudes and women's intra-household decision-making power interact to shape fertility intentions in China, focusing on the mechanisms that may mitigate the negative link between egalitarian gender attitudes and fertility intentions.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Background</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>China continues to face an extremely low fertility rate despite the relaxation of family planning policies. Progressive gender attitudes among women contrast with persistent traditional household roles, creating a gap between gender ideals and lived realities.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Method</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Using data from the 2017 China General Social Survey, the study analyzed a sample of 669 married women of childbearing age. A four-step hierarchical linear regression model was used to incorporate control variables, gender attitudes, decision-making power, and their interaction.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Results</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Egalitarian gender attitudes were significantly associated with lower fertility intentions. However, this negative relationship was weakened when women had greater decision-making power within the household. The moderating effect was especially pronounced among urban, highly educated, employed women, as well as those who do more housework and those under 42 years old.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Conclusion</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The study highlights that progressive gender attitudes are linked to lower fertility intentions in China. Yet, increased household empowerment can buffer this negative relationship, highlighting the importance of aligning gender ideals with everyday practices.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Implications</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Enhancing women's decision-making power within households could help bridge the gap between progressive gender ideals and reality, thus boosting fertility intentions. Fertility-boosting policies should aim to further reduce this gap and promote women's autonomy in family matters.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48206,"journal":{"name":"Family Relations","volume":"75 2","pages":"783-800"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147649439","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Dyadic resistance during parent–adolescent interactions: A state space grid analysis before and after high school","authors":"Daniel Ji,&nbsp;Frances Cabahug,&nbsp;Sheila K. Marshall","doi":"10.1111/fare.70137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/fare.70137","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Objective</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study examined micro-level resistance dynamics that occur during parent–adolescent interactions before and after the transition to high school.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Background</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Although research on parent–adolescent disputes has emphasized global measures of frequency and intensity, less attention has been paid to the actions of resistance during parent–adolescent interactions. This study fills a gap in what is known about parent–adolescent resistance dynamics.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Methods</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>A state space grid approach informed by dynamic systems and family conflict theories was conducted on two videorecorded conversations in a sample of 26 Canadian parent–adolescent dyads. Flexibility, attractor, and intergrid distance analyses assessed intradyadic variability in how parents and adolescents resisted one another moment to moment.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Results</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Attractor analysis revealed that the most probable state during resistance sequences shifted: Before high school it was the Parent Justifying–Adolescent Justifying cell, after it was the Parent Minimizing–Adolescent Rejecting cell. <i>t</i>-test results of intergrid distance scores showed a significant difference in the positioning of resistance sequences after high school.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Conclusion</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Results offer evidence that dyadic resistance differs before and after significant family transitions like the move to high school.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Implications</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Future research on dyadic resistance microprocesses could examine whether the proposed conceptual categories could be applied to dyads across multiple areas of difference to scrutinize its utility for a range of cultural and caregiver relationships.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48206,"journal":{"name":"Family Relations","volume":"75 2","pages":"901-920"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/fare.70137","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147653299","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Expanding theoretical perspectives on the associations between relationship satisfaction and suicidal ideation","authors":"Preston C. Morgan,&nbsp;Heather A. Love,&nbsp;Garrin Morlan","doi":"10.1111/fare.70115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/fare.70115","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Objective</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>We aimed to investigate the theoretical extensions and potential integration of the marital discord model of depression (MDMD) and interpersonal theory of suicide (ITS).</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Background</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Although there is empirical and theoretical support that enhanced relationship satisfaction buffers depressive symptoms (i.e., MDMD), it remains unknown whether this association also applies to suicidal ideation. Prominent theories for depression (i.e., MDMD) and suicide (i.e., ITS) have yet to examine the distinction between suicidal ideation and depressive symptoms as they relate to relationship satisfaction.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Method</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Using a sample of 200 adults in romantic relationships, we conducted multiple group moderated path analyses. We tested whether theoretical concepts from both theories predicted depressive symptoms and differed by group (depressed only and suicidal ideation). Data were online and cross-sectional.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Results</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Results revealed that enhanced relationship satisfaction was surprisingly associated with higher depressive symptoms for the group with suicidal ideation—extending MDMD to suicidal ideation. Furthermore, theoretical concepts from ITS were associated with depressive symptoms in the depressed only group—extending ITS to depressive symptoms.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Conclusion</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>General findings support theoretical extensions for each theory but did not support theoretical integration. We encourage future research to replicate these findings and further explore romantic relationships and suicidal ideation.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48206,"journal":{"name":"Family Relations","volume":"75 2","pages":"1043-1053"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147653328","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Parental after-hours telework and adolescent psychological adjustment: Insights from adolescents' perspective","authors":"Christopher Rodrigue,&nbsp;Wendy Nilsen,&nbsp;Jacinthe Dion","doi":"10.1111/fare.70133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/fare.70133","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Background and Objective</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Advances in information and communication technologies offer increased flexibility for employed parents but also blur work–family boundaries. Research is needed to understand how flexible working arrangements, such as after-hours telework, may affect relationships and well-being within the family. This study thus examined associations between adolescents' perceptions of parental after-hours telework and psychological adjustment, focusing on the mediating role of parental support and technoference.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Methods</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Participants were 381 adolescents (46.5% girls; 78.1% identified as Québécois) aged 15 to 18 years, who completed a survey about parental after-hours telework, parental support, family technoference, and psychological adjustment (i.e., self-esteem, life satisfaction, externalizing and internalizing symptoms). Structural equation modeling was used to test hypothesized associations, with path analyses assessing mediating roles of support and technoference for mothers and fathers separately.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Results</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Paternal after-hours telework was associated with lower adolescent self-esteem and life satisfaction, and higher levels of externalized and internalized symptoms. Maternal after-hours telework was associated only with increased externalized symptoms. Path analyses indicated that lower paternal support and higher maternal technoference partially mediated these associations.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Conclusion</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Findings reveal distinct patterns linking maternal and paternal after-hours telework to adolescents' psychological adjustment, highlighting the mediating influence of reduced parental support and increased technoference.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Implications</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The findings point to the need for increased parental and organizational awareness of the potential spillover effects of after-hours telework on family dynamics and adolescent's well-being, as flexible work arrangements become more prevalent.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48206,"journal":{"name":"Family Relations","volume":"75 2","pages":"886-900"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/fare.70133","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147666053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"New families, multiple stories: Conversational processes, origin stories, and donor-conceived children","authors":"Javiera Navarro-Marshall","doi":"10.1111/fare.70092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/fare.70092","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Objective</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>How do families with donor-conceived children talk about their origins with them?</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Background</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Donor-conceived families are challenged to disclose origins to their children. Developmental psychology has scarce evidence about how these conversations unfold. These are discourse-dependent families; hence, how families talk about these stories is relevant for children's development.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Method</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Naturalistic conversations-of-origin stories were analyzed with a structural and pragmatic coding scheme. Participants were 22 mothers, four fathers, 11 daughters, and eight sons (all children aged 3 to 8 years), belonging to 17 donor-conceived families from heterosexual, lesbian, and single-mother-by-choice structures. All lived in Chile at the moment of research and self-identified as of Latino ethnicity.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Results</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Origin stories are complex; intimate; mother led; brief in extension; coconstructed, with asymmetrical contribution (parents scaffolding); and interactive.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Conclusion</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>These results can contribute to the design of empirically based strategies to support these family conversational processes.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Implications or recommendations</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Further research needs to be done with bigger samples, and follow-up studies need to be held to assess how these origin stories contribute to identity processes of donor-conceived children.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48206,"journal":{"name":"Family Relations","volume":"75 2","pages":"769-782"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147653143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The contribution of paternal involvement and appraisal of family resources to Taiwanese women's fertility outcomes","authors":"Chih-Wen Wu","doi":"10.1111/fare.70105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/fare.70105","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Objective</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study highlights the crucial role of husbands' paternal involvement in childcare in enhancing Taiwanese women's fertility outcomes.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Background</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Taiwan's fertility rate has been steadily declining in recent decades, and greater paternal involvement is considered a promising strategy. Drawing on the family stress management model, this study hypothesizes that women's perceptions of husbands' paternal involvement in childcare (PIC) and supportive coparenting partnership (SCP) increase the likelihood of having additional children within 3 years, with family childcare resource appraisal (FCR) as a potential mediator.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Methods</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Data were obtained from the longitudinal Kids in Taiwan project, which included 5,013 Taiwanese women who had children and remained married. Among them, 1,066 had additional children within 3 years. A series of regression and mediation analyses with bootstrapping were conducted.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Results</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>In the full sample, both PIC and SCP significantly predicted an increased likelihood of having another child within 3 years, and these effects were mediated by women's greater appraisal of FCR. Subgroup analyses revealed, however, that these effects reached statistical significance only among women who initially had one child.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Conclusion</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study underscores the importance of supportive paternal involvement, which enhances women's perception of family resources and predicts fertility outcomes over time.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Implications</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>These findings offer valuable insights for family life educators and policymakers to address Taiwan's increasingly lower fertility rate. The family stress management model serves as a theoretically generative and practically useful framework for understanding and responding to fertility decisions.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48206,"journal":{"name":"Family Relations","volume":"75 2","pages":"1102-1117"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147653316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Quality time in early childhood: Eliciting young children's perspectives","authors":"Rachel A. McGovern","doi":"10.1111/fare.70069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/fare.70069","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Objective</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study employed developmentally sensitive ethnographic techniques to elicit young children's perspectives of their quality time experiences in family contexts.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Background</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Intensive parenting ideology and social constructions of “good parenting” prioritize culturally defined quality time in which parents focus on cultivating children's cognitive and emotional development and improving family parent–child relations. However, young children's perspectives have been overlooked in research examining their time use, thus constraining assessment of their subjective well-being.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Method</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Six children (ages 3–5 years) from five families participated in more than 80 hours of intensive family observations staggered over a 3-month period. Data-gathering techniques also included informal conversations, role-play, and drawing.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Results</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Quality time for the children frequently occurred as spontaneous moments of connection during mundane or ordinary experiences. Additionally, quality time in family contexts arose from interactions with nonparent family members, such as siblings and grandparents, and interaction with a family member was not a requirement for quality time to exist.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Conclusion</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Findings challenge predominant assumptions about what it means to be a “good” parent by providing a new perspective of quality time informed by young children's experiences.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Implications</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Reframing quality time as requiring fewer resources (i.e., time, energy, money) may reduce the pressure or guilt some parents' feel over a lack of time with their young children. Additionally, by understanding what constitutes quality time for young children, parents and caregivers, educators, and policymakers become more aware of young children's priorities and the experiences that contribute to their subjective well-being.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48206,"journal":{"name":"Family Relations","volume":"75 2","pages":"845-864"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/fare.70069","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147653351","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mechanisms linking household income trajectories to adolescent mental well-being: A longitudinal study","authors":"Qian-Wen Xie,&nbsp;Shuang Lu,&nbsp;Xiangyan Luo,&nbsp;Jiaqi Deng","doi":"10.1111/fare.70068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/fare.70068","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Objectives</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Using four waves of data from the China Family Panel Study, this study examined the impact of household income trajectories on two key dimensions of adolescent mental well-being (i.e., depressive symptoms and happiness) and explored the mediating mechanisms.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Background</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Substantial evidence links socioeconomic status (SES) to adolescent mental health, yet few studies have examined how longitudinal SES trajectories shape mental well-being and the mechanisms underlying these relationships.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Method</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Using group-based trajectory modeling, we analyzed a nationally representative sample of 3,491 Chinese families with adolescents aged 10 to 19, identifying five distinct income trajectories.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Results</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Adolescents from stable lower middle-income and decreasing-income groups demonstrated more depressive symptoms compared with their counterparts in the stable high-income group. These associations were primarily mediated by maternal mental well-being and family material investment pathways. Additionally, adolescents in the stable low-income group exhibited lower happiness levels than the stable high-income group, with maternal mental well-being partly mediating this association.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Conclusion</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Both stable lower income and downward income mobility are significant predictors of poorer adolescent mental health outcomes, mediated through distinct pathways such as family stress and family material investment.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Implications</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Our results underscore the critical role of SES trajectories in shaping developmental contexts that influence adolescent mental well-being.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48206,"journal":{"name":"Family Relations","volume":"75 2","pages":"1084-1101"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147653223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Marital Satisfaction and the Quality of Mother–Father–Child Triadic Interactions: A Systematic Review","authors":"Jessica Letot,&nbsp;Laurine Colin,&nbsp;Emmanuel Devouche,&nbsp;Aurélie Untas","doi":"10.1111/fare.70131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/fare.70131","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Objective</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This systematic review aimed to characterize the link between marital satisfaction and triadic interactions.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Background</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Current literature has demonstrated a link between marital satisfaction and dyadic parent–infant interactions, two concepts that are known to impact infant development. These results obtained for dyadic interactions cannot be transposed to triadic interactions.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Method</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>A systematic review was conducted using the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis) method. An electronic search was conducted in four databases for all articles published on the topic. A total of 11 articles met the inclusion criteria. The findings differ between studies; no link, a positive link, and a negative link were found between marital satisfaction and triadic interactions.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Results</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>We discuss the adaptive and nonadaptive nature of marital satisfaction during the perinatal period. A decrease in marital satisfaction allows the parents' relationship to evolve from a couple-centered relationship to a triadic relationship. Triadic interactions are of poorer quality when this decrease reaches a distress threshold, however.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Conclusion and Implications</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Future studies should explore this link before the infant is 3 months old, for early prevention of the potential negative effects of low marital satisfaction or poor-quality triadic interactions on infant development. Although more research is required on this topic to generalize the effects to the general population, identifying marital distress in couples—as early as during pregnancy—appears important to prevent its effects on their interactions with the infant.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48206,"journal":{"name":"Family Relations","volume":"75 2","pages":"1069-1083"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147653305","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}