Understanding social aspects of parental well‐being is vital because parents' welfare has
implications not only for the parents themselves but also for child development, fertility, and …

Joint physical custody (JPC), a parental care arrangement in which a child lives with each
parent for at least 25–50% of the time after separation or divorce, is increasingly common in …

The COVID‐19 pandemic has caused significant stress for individuals, couples, and
families. Divorced and separated couples with children face unique stresses amid the …

We were fortunate to have started our research careers about the same time as the study of
stepfamilies was “discovered” as a valid topic for social and behavioral scientists. We also …

This article offers a new definition and an expanded conceptual model of maternal
gatekeeping derived from the extant literature and critiques offered by scholars and applied …

This article addresses 4 questions: First, how much weight should be given to parental
conflict and the quality of the coparenting relationship in determining parenting time …

We examined the relationship between personal and interpersonal indicators of postdivorce
adjustment and dimensions of coparenting (support, overt conflict, covert conflict) using data …

Court‐ordered shared physical and legal custody has led to greater numbers of couples that
must coparent following divorce. We conducted a grounded theory study to examine …

Research has identified multiple predictors of coparenting quality, but few studies have
investigated how intimate partner violence (IPV) affects divorcing couples' coparenting …

Using data from 291 divorced mothers and fathers, we compared their perceptions of how
much legal‐financial, time‐logistics, and parental fitness barriers influenced their …