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{"title":"Children and Wealth Contexts in the United States: Differences by Household Type.","authors":"Christina Gibson-Davis","doi":"10.1111/jomf.70026","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jomf.70026","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>To examine whether the wealth context of households with children, marked by high rates of inequality and low levels of wealth for those at the bottom, also applies to elderly households and households without children.</p><p><strong>Background: </strong>Children experience higher income poverty than elderly or working-age adults, but wealth and wealth deprivation comparisons across these groups have not been done. Exploring these differences may reveal another economic dimension on which households with children are uniquely vulnerable and inform policies aimed at financial stability.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Data are drawn from the 1989 to 2022 waves of the Survey of Consumer Finances (<i>N</i> = 58,148 households), a nationally representative triannual survey of household wealth. The study tracks trends in wealth inequality, wealth holdings, and net worth poverty across three household types: non-elderly households with children, non-elderly households without children, and elderly households.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Households with children exhibit higher wealth inequality, lower wealth levels, and greater net worth poverty rates than the other two household types. Disparities between elderly and child households are particularly large, with child households having pennies on the dollar for every dollar of elderly wealth. These disparities increased over time, except in the early 2020s, when gaps narrowed.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Like income, wealth is another economic context in which child households compare unfavorably to households without children and elderly households. However, government spending during the pandemic coincided with increases in child household wealth and decreases in net worth poverty, suggesting that child wealth contexts are not fixed.</p>","PeriodicalId":48440,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Marriage and Family","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12419477/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145041874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Brief Report Comparing Younger and Older Cohabitors.","authors":"Matthew R Wright, Susan L Brown, Wendy D Manning, Madelyn Flowers, Jenna M Ward","doi":"10.1111/jomf.13128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.13128","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>This study examined age variation in relationship quality and stability, plans to marry, and reasons to cohabit among cohabiting adults in the U.S.</p><p><strong>Background: </strong>The landscape of cohabitation has changed in the past few decades as cohabitation has surged among older adults even as it has plateaued among younger people. Early research revealed key age-related variations in the meaning and relationship dynamics of cohabiting unions, but whether these patterns persist nowadays remains an empirical question.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Data were drawn from the nationally representative 2013 Families and Relationships Survey. The analytic sample was composed of cohabiting adults aged 18-65. Multivariable models investigated age group differences in relationship quality and stability, plans to marry, and reasons to cohabit net of relationship, demographic, and economic factors.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>As expected, relationship quality and stability tended to be higher among older than younger cohabitors. Older cohabitors were the least likely to have plans to marry and to view testing marital compatibility as an important reason for cohabiting.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Cohabitation appears to operate differently across the adult life course, functioning primarily as a prelude to marriage or alternative to singlehood earlier in the life course versus an alternative to marriage in later life.</p>","PeriodicalId":48440,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Marriage and Family","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12362635/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144974630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sex of Child, the Fatherhood Bonus, and Fathers' Work Hours","authors":"Elizabeth Aura McClintock,&nbsp;Emily Fitzgibbons Shafer","doi":"10.1111/jomf.13122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.13122","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Objective</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This research note examines whether the fatherhood bonus—the earnings increase that men, on average, experience after the birth of a child—varies by sex of child, a largely overlooked dimension of heterogeneity. We also consider men's paid work hours, as an indicator of time available for active parenting and of men's devotion to breadwinning.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Background</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Competing social understandings of fathers as providers and fathers as caregivers create ambiguity in defining “good fathering.” In practice, fathers spend more time with sons compared to daughters, suggesting that fathers of sons disproportionately understand “good fathers” as involved parents, whereas fathers of daughters understand “good fathers” as financial providers. If so, fathers of daughters would experience a larger fatherhood bonus and longer work hours, as compared to fathers of sons.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Method</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Using fixed-effects analysis and data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1979 cohort, the authors examine variation by sex of child in the impact of fatherhood on men's earnings and hours worked.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Results</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Fathers of daughters experience a larger fatherhood bonus than fathers of sons. For married men, who experience the largest fatherhood bonus, the birth of a daughter is associated with increased paid work hours, but the birth of a son is associated with unchanged or reduced work hours.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Conclusions</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>These results are suggestive of sex-of-child differences in men's understanding of good fathering.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48440,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Marriage and Family","volume":"87 5","pages":"2178-2188"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jomf.13122","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145272781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Parenthood and Gendered Mental Health: The Role of Paid Work and Housework Time","authors":"Sandrine Metzger,&nbsp;Pablo Gracia","doi":"10.1111/jomf.13121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.13121","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Objective</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study examines the role of changes in paid work and housework time on first-time mothers' and fathers' mental health trajectories.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Background</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The transition into parenthood is a key life course event with important consequences for individuals' activity patterns and couples' division of labor. Yet, whether gendered shifts in paid and domestic work time are linked to men's and women's mental health during the transition to parenthood remains unclear.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Method</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Using large-scale panel data from the Australian HILDA survey for men and women in different-sex couples (2002–2022; <i>N</i> = 5932), we apply a longitudinal mediation framework with fixed effects models to determine the extent to which mental health trajectories are affected by changes in paid work and housework hours across the first transition into parenthood, considering both <i>individual</i> and <i>partner-relative</i> contributions.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Results</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Individual and partner-relative paid work hours are positively associated with mental health for both men and women, while individual housework hours negatively impact only women. Following parenthood, women experience substantial reductions in paid work and increases in housework hours, but men's time use stays unchanged. Accordingly, despite overall improvements in women's mental health trajectories, findings show that these parenthood-related changes in time allocations suppress some of the positive effects of childbearing for women, whereas men remain unaffected.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Conclusion</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The transition to parenthood markedly reinforces gendered time use patterns in paid work and housework within couples, with disadvantageous shifts for women that result in small reductions in first-time mothers' mental health trajectories. The potential factors underlying these findings are discussed.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48440,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Marriage and Family","volume":"87 5","pages":"1996-2011"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jomf.13121","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145273055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Parenthood in Europe: Not More Life Satisfaction, but More Meaning in Life","authors":"Ansgar Hudde,&nbsp;Marita Jacob","doi":"10.1111/jomf.13116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.13116","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Objective</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study contrasts the associations between parenthood and two central components of subjective well-being: life satisfaction and meaning in life.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Background</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Theoretical arguments and previous research based on qualitative analyses suggest that parenthood might lower life satisfaction but increase meaning in life. This study provides the first test of this idea based on a large-scale, multicountry analysis, considering heterogeneity in the link between parenthood and well-being across sociodemographic groups and national contexts.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Methods</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The data were sourced from the European Social Survey, with more than 43,000 respondents from 30 countries. Multilevel regression models tested the role of parenthood, proxied by the presence of children in the household, on life satisfaction and meaning in life, with separate analyses conducted for women and men. Additional analyses investigated heterogeneity across sociodemographic groups and country clusters.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Results</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The link between parenthood and life satisfaction varied significantly by gender and context, tending to be more negative for parents facing more challenging conditions. Conversely, the analyses revealed a consistent <i>positive</i> link between parenthood and meaning in life for both women and men, regardless of social and national context.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Conclusion</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Parenthood is linked to lower life satisfaction for some groups but to higher meaning in life across diverse populations. However, under certain conditions, such as the culture and policy context of the Nordic countries, parenthood is associated with both higher life satisfaction and meaning, two key components of a good life.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48440,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Marriage and Family","volume":"87 5","pages":"1963-1978"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jomf.13116","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145272913","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Relational Turbulence Among Retired Couples in Arab Society: An APIM Analysis","authors":"Reem Nashef-Hamuda,&nbsp;Roi Estlein,&nbsp;Yuval Palgi,&nbsp;Dikla Segel-Karpas","doi":"10.1111/jomf.13118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.13118","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Objective</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study examined how relational uncertainty and partner interdependence predict marital satisfaction and intimacy among post-retirement Arab couples in Israel.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Background</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Retirement has rarely been studied in Arab society, despite its growing relevance due to significant shifts in family roles, gender norms, and social structures. Understanding how couples navigate this life transition is critical, especially in conservative cultural contexts. The Relational Turbulence Model (RTM) offers a useful framework for exploring how uncertainty and interdependence affect relationship quality in later life.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Method</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The sample included 108 retired heterosexual Arab couples (<i>N</i> = 216; husbands' age M = 70.31, wives' age M = 65.07; average marital duration = 43.58 years). Dyadic data were analyzed using the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model (APIM). The study controlled for gender, religion, and financial status and focused on five relational turbulence variables: self-uncertainty, partner uncertainty, relationship uncertainty, interference, and facilitation.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Results</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>All five relational turbulence variables significantly predicted both marital satisfaction and intimacy. Strong partner effects were found, indicating that one's partner's uncertainty and interdependence significantly contributed to one's own relationship perceptions. No gender differences or moderating effects were observed.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Conclusion</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Findings Extend RTM to Post-Retirement Couples Within Arab Society and Highlight the Dyadic Nature of Relational Turbulence in Later Life.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Implications</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Results offer valuable insight for researchers and practitioners working with older couples in culturally traditional contexts undergoing social change.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48440,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Marriage and Family","volume":"87 5","pages":"2097-2109"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jomf.13118","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145272968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Roka Engagements and the Hybridization of Arranged and “Love” Marriage in Urban India","authors":"Megan N. Reed","doi":"10.1111/jomf.13115","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jomf.13115","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Objective</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study examines the role of roka marriage engagements in blurring the distinction between self-choice, also known as “love” marriage, and arranged marriage in urban India.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Background</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Arranged marriage remains highly prevalent in India though recent research suggests that arranged marriages today increasingly incorporate elements of choice and compatibility. Previous research, however, has overlooked the important role of marriage engagements in this transformation. In North India, a roka ceremony often formalizes an arranged marriage match and marks the beginning of the engagement period.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Method</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study uses data from 48 interviews conducted in 2018 and 2019 with recently married couples, unmarried young people, and parents in the New Delhi area. All respondents were part of the college-educated middle class.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Results</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Couples in arranged marriages were found to engage in courtship during their engagement, drawing on the scripts of romantic love and deviating from traditional practices that disallowed contact before the wedding. This courtship sometimes leads to a broken engagement. Roka engagements are also important, albeit for different aims, for couples in premarital romantic relationships. They often use the roka engagement to signal that they have obtained parental endorsement of their self-chosen match, an important step in avoiding social stigma and achieving the social legitimacy of their relationship.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Conclusions</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The case of roka engagements reveals important ways in which the definition of arranged marriage has expanded to incorporate romantic love, emotional compatibility, and autonomy.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48440,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Marriage and Family","volume":"87 5","pages":"2042-2055"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144974583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Caring for Parents/In-Laws and Cognitive Functioning of Adult Children in China","authors":"Zhiyong Lin,&nbsp;Haoshu Duan,&nbsp;Jianfeng He,&nbsp;Ying Huang","doi":"10.1111/jomf.13117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.13117","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Objective</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study investigates the longitudinal association between caring for parents/in-laws and cognitive functioning among adult children in China. It also examines how this association is influenced by relationship type (own parents vs. in-laws), caregiving intensity, and the gender of the caregiver.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Background</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>While family caregiving is often seen as stressful and negatively impacting caregivers' health, recent evidence suggests that caregiving may improve health, particularly cognitive health, through cognitively stimulating activities that can help prevent cognitive decline. However, the cognitive health implications of caregiving, especially in non-Western contexts, remain underexplored.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Methods</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Using data from three waves of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS, 2011, 2013, and 2018), this study includes 12,750 respondents and 24,076 person-year observations. Growth curve models were used to predict the cognitive functioning trajectories of adult children.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Results</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Descriptive analyses showed that women were more likely to be caregivers, especially for parents-in-law, compared to men. Growth curve models indicated that caring for one's own parents was associated with better cognitive functioning compared to noncaregivers, whereas caring for parents-in-law alone had no significant effects. Both women and men benefited from caring for their own parents, although for women, the benefits were significant only at low/moderate caregiving intensity.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Conclusion</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study highlights the connection between caregiving and cognitive health, emphasizing the importance of considering caregiver–recipient relationship types. It advocates for gender-specific support and the development of long-term care policies that address these varied caregiving experiences.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48440,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Marriage and Family","volume":"87 5","pages":"2189-2200"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145271853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Lifting the Veil: Exploring Premarital Hesitation and Engagement Dissolution Consideration","authors":"J. Kale Monk,&nbsp;Tyler Jamison,&nbsp;Matthew A. Ogan,&nbsp;Karen E. Talley,&nbsp;Dawson E. Boron,&nbsp;Jennifer L. Harper,&nbsp;Amber Haas,&nbsp;Lauren Huff","doi":"10.1111/jomf.13113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.13113","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Objective</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study examines real-time narratives from online forum users to understand their experiences with premarital uncertainty and gain insight into the decision-making process around dissolving wedding engagements.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Background</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Issues that lead to marital dissolution often emerge early in relationships, making the engagement period a critical phase to address concerns before the legal and emotional complexities of marriage arise. Informed by interdependence and relational turbulence theories, this study investigated how engaged individuals articulate their premarital uncertainties and potential dissolution considerations during the engagement period.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Methods</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Using a grounded theory approach, we analyzed data from 36 Reddit posts about premarital hesitation, alongside 2213 associated comments, from 1535 unique individuals.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Results</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Original posters (OPs) struggled with concerns about the future of their relationships while expressing ongoing feelings of love and commitment to their partners. Commenters validated OPs' concerns and encouraged them to visualize their future marriage.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Conclusion</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>We uncovered a premarital hesitation process characterized by emotional ambivalence, reappraisals of the past, and conjecture about the future. Using Reddit data revealed the complexities of stay/leave decisions and the potential role that outsiders can play in responding to relational uncertainty. This rich, naturally occurring dialogue offers rare insights into relationship dynamics that are often elusive in traditional research.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Implications</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Premarital educators and clinicians should consider how couples may be seeking relationship advice in non-therapeutic spaces. Additionally, researchers could further leverage online forums to collect data from populations that are difficult to reach through conventional methods.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48440,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Marriage and Family","volume":"87 5","pages":"2027-2041"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145271855","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How Do Parents Share Childcare That Interferes With Paid Work? Work Arrangements, Flexible Working, and Childcare","authors":"Bernice Kuang,&nbsp;Brienna Perelli-Harris,&nbsp;Ann Berrington","doi":"10.1111/jomf.13112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.13112","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Objective</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study examines how mothers and fathers divide childcare tasks that interfere with paid work and whether there is an association with patterns of work and access to work flexibility.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Background</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Childcare encompasses a range of diverse tasks, yet is persistently gendered, with women doing more than men, regardless of work arrangements. Flexible working can exacerbate childcare inequalities among working couples, but less is known about how flexible working is associated with the gender division of childcare tasks that directly interfere with the workday.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Method</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>We used the UK Generations and Gender Survey (2022–23), a stratified national probability sample, to study heterosexual couples with children under the age of 12 (<i>n</i> = 1152). Using logistic regression, we analyze the gender division of specific childcare tasks and associations with work arrangements (i.e., dual earner, male/female breadwinner, and less than full-time work) and work flexibility (i.e., doing work from home and access to flexible hours).</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Results</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Childcare tasks that interfere with the workday (i.e., staying home with ill children, getting children dressed, dropping children off at school or childcare) are particularly gendered. Fathers working from home or having access to flexible hours were associated with a higher likelihood of equally sharing these tasks; the same relationship was not found for mothers.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Conclusion</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Fathers' access to and use of flexible working may help to address one persistent form of gender inequality.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48440,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Marriage and Family","volume":"87 5","pages":"1947-1962"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jomf.13112","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145271854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}