ArticleJournal of marriage and the family2020
Parenthood and Well-Being: A Decade in Review.
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202 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 669 citations in OpenAlex.
- Parental Stress and Well-Being: A Meta-analysis.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2025Pooled it
- Meta-Analyses of the Relationships between Family Systems Practices, Parents' Psychological Health, and Parenting Quality.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Pooled it
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- Effects of unconditional cash transfers on family processes and wellbeing among mothers with low incomes.Nature communications · 2025Trial
- Can a multicomponent positive psychological intervention promote well-being in parents of young children? A randomized controlled trial study in Hong Kong.Family process · 2024Trial
- Veterans' positive parenting practices and satisfaction over time: Examining the impact of moral injury, posttraumatic stress, and internalizing symptoms.Journal of traumatic stress · 2026Article
- Fathers' Childcare Success and Maternal Parenting Stress: A Comparative Study of Families With and Without Children Having Neurodevelopmental Disabilities.Developmental psychobiology · 2026Article
- Parenting stress and work-family balance as determinants of parent-child relationship quality in dual-earner families in Türkiye.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- From Foundational Caregiving to Maternal Eudaimonic Well-Being: The Role of Parenting and Interaction Competence.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Psychological reflections of guilt among mothers of infants hospitalized in the neonatal intensive care unit: a multiple moderator effect analysis.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2026Article
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- Health-related quality of life in parents of adolescents in 2019, 2021 and 2023.BMC pediatrics · 2026Article
- Short Self-Assessment Questionnaire for Parents with Young Children on Caregiver Strengths and Strains: Development and Psychometric Properties of the Balance Scale.Journal of pediatrics. Clinical practice · 2026Article
- Actor-Partner Interdependence Between Parenting Perfectionism and Parental Stress Among Chinese Parents Over Time.Family process · 2026Article
- How work and family dynamics shape mental health across the life course: Insights from a longitudinal study in Japan.SSM - population health · 2026Article
- Determination of rational drug use, health literacy, and cyberchondria levels among teachers.BMC public health · 2026Article
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Abstract
Understanding social aspects of parental well-being is vital, because parents' welfare has implications not only for parents themselves but also for child development, fertility, and the overall health of a society. This article provides a critical review of scholarship on parenthood and well-being in advanced economies published from 2010 to 2019. It focuses on the role of social, economic, cultural, and institutional contexts of parenting in influencing adult well-being. We identify major themes, achievements, and challenges and organize the review around the demands-rewards perspective and two theoretical frameworks: the stress process model and life course perspectives. The analysis shows that rising economic insecurities and inequalities and a diffusion of intensive parenting ideology were major social contexts of parenting in the 2010s. Scholarship linking parenting contexts and parental well-being illuminated how stressors related to providing and caring for children could unjustly burden some parents, especially mothers, those with fewer socioeconomic resources, and those with marginalized statuses. In that vein, researchers continued to emphasize how stressors diverged by parents' socioeconomic status, gender, and partnership status, with new attention to strains experienced by racial/ethnic minority, immigrant, and LGBTQ parents. Scholars' comparisons of parents' positions in various countries expanded, enhancing knowledge regarding specific policy supports that allow parents to thrive. Articulating future research within a stress process model framework, we showed vibrant theoretical pathways, including conceptualizing potential parental social supports at multiple levels, attending to the intersection of multiple social locations of parents, and renewing attention to local contextual factors and parenting life stages.
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