The relationship between parenthood and well-being has become a hot topic among
scholars, media, and general public alike. The research, however, has been mixed—some …

A growing body of research unveils the ubiquity of ambivalence—the simultaneous
experience of positive and negative emotional or cognitive orientations toward a person …

Family relationships are enduring and consequential for well-being across the life course.
We discuss several types of family relationships—marital, intergenerational, and sibling ties …

Research documents high levels of instrumental, financial, and expressive support
exchanges within multigenerational families in the 21st century. The COVID‐19 pandemic …

This article reviews recent research (1999–2009) on the effects of parenthood on well‐
being. We use a life course framework to consider how parenting and childlessness …

Popular media describe adverse effects of helicopter parents who provide intense support to
grown children, but few studies have examined implications of such intense support. Grown …

Abstract Purpose of the Study. This study compared the stress and mental health
implications of caregiving to a spouse, children, siblings, other family members, friends, and …

In this review, we summarize and critically evaluate the major empirical, conceptual, and
theoretical directions that studies of aging families have taken during the first decade of the …

Parents may provide many types of support to their grown children. Parents age 40 to 60 (N=
633) reported the support they exchange with each child over age 18 (N= 1,384). Mothers …

The 2002 exchange on ambivalence in the Journal of Marriage and Family (Vol. 64, No. 3),
published under the editorship of Alexis Walker, prompted an impressive array of research …