ArticleJournal of marriage and the family2010
Parenthood, Childlessness, and Well-Being: A Life Course Perspective.
Article in Journal of marriage and the family, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 168 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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168 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Association of Preterm Birth and Low Birth Weight With Romantic Partnership, Sexual Intercourse, and Parenthood in Adulthood: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.JAMA network open · 2019Pooled it
- Parenthood and mental health throughout the life course: A total population study.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2026Article
- Family life-course trajectories and longitudinal changes in depressive symptoms and physical functional limitations in Chinese women from midlife to early old age: a 7-year longitudinal cohort study.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Life Course Dynamics in the Health of Mothers Raising Children with Serious Conditions.Journal of health and social behavior · 2026Article
- Adult children's unemployment and parental mental health in India: Social and economic heterogeneity.SSM - population health · 2026Article
- Interrelationships between mentalizing capacity, symptoms of depression and anxiety, and coparenting in parents of school aged children.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- The role of social and genetic factors in partnership trajectories and later life health.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The Association Between Family Planning and Psychological Distress in Individuals With Minoritized Gender Identities in Germany: A Cross-Sectional Study During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Perspectives on sexual and reproductive health · 2025Article
- Parental burnout as a mediator between fathers' parenting stress and preschoolers' emotional-behavioral problems: an urban-rural comparative study.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Kin to strain: longitudinal impacts of family size on mental health among aging South Africans.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2025Article
- Examining Longitudinal Relationships between Social Support and Strain in Relationships with Children and Older Adults' Cognitive Functioning.Journal of health and social behavior · 2025Article
- Multidimensional Scale of Motives for Postponing Parenthood (MSMPP-18): Development, factorial structure and psychometric properties.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Intergenerational relationships after parental divorce: variations by levels of family solidarity.European journal of ageing · 2025Article
- Family Size Across the Life Course and Cognitive Decline in Older Mexican Adults.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2025Article
- The presence of meaning in parenthood and parental self-efficacy: a serial mediation model from social support to parent-child relationships.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Number of children and dementia risk: a causal mediation analysis using data from the HUNT study linked with national registries in Norway.BMC neurology · 2025Article
- Predictors of Young Adult Women's Psychological Well-Being in Romantic Relationships.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Changes in fruit and vegetable consumption during the transition to parenthood: longitudinal evidence from Australia and the United Kingdom.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Research Note: The Association Between Parity and Odds of Alzheimer's Disease and Dementias Status.Demography · 2024Article
- Parenthood and the physical and mental health of sexual and gender minority parents: A cross-sectional, observational analysis from The PRIDE Study.Annals of epidemiology · 2024Observational
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Abstract
This article reviews recent research (1999 - 2009) on the effects of parenthood on wellbeing. We use a life course framework to consider how parenting and childlessness influence well-being throughout the adult life course. We place particular emphasis on social contexts and how the impact of parenthood on well-being depends on marital status, gender, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. We also consider how recent demographic shifts lead to new family arrangements that have implications for parenthood and well-being. These include stepparenting, parenting of grandchildren, and childlessness across the life course.
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