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The Editors-in-Chief of the Journal of Child and Family Studies acknowledge the quality of papers by choosing in each issue one article that is outstanding with respect to scientific quality and public-health relevance.

Volume 32 (2023)

• Examining Parental Monitoring, Neighborhood Peer Anti-social Behavior, and Neighborhood Social Cohesion and Control as a Pathway to Adolescent Substance Use (Free Access Until April 30th)

• Felons Need Not Apply: The Tough-on-crime Era’s Felony Welfare Benefits Ban and its Impact on Families with a Formerly Incarcerated Parent (Free Access Until April 30th)

Volume 31 (2022)

• Parenting Characteristics Protective Against Substance Use and Deviant Peer Involvement in High-Risk Neighborhoods (Free Access Until November 30th)
• “All About How You Couch It:” African American Fathers’ Visions of Interventions for their Sons (Free Access Until November 30th)
• Examining Gender-Specific Modeling in the Intergenerational Transmission of Parenting Style and Physical Child Abuse Risk (Free Access Until October 31st)
• Character Strengths and Social Support as Protective Factors between Grandparents’ Caregiving and Health-Related Quality of Life (Free Access Until October 31st)
• A national examination of poverty and interactive caregiving practices among parents of young children (Free Access until September 30th)
• Poverty after Birth: How Mothers Experience and Navigate U.S. Safety Net Programs to Address Family Needs
• African American Children’s Racial Discrimination Experiences and Mental Health (Free Access Until July 31st)
• The Associations Between Everyday Discrimination, Brooding, Reflection, and Symptoms of Depression in Adolescents (Free Access Until July 31st)
• Latinx Parents’ Perception of Discrimination and Ethnic/Racial Socialization Predict Their Elementary School Children’s Perceptions of Discrimination (Free Access Until July 31st)
• Assessment of Positive and Stimulating Home Environments for Global Monitoring (Free Access Until March 31st, 2022)
• Parents’ Obedience Beliefs and Autonomy Granting: The Role of Child Externalizing and Parent Anxiety (Free Access Until March 31st, 2022)
• Low-Income Mothers’ and Fathers’ Cognitive Stimulation During Early Childhood and Child Vocabulary at Age 9 (Free Access Until March 31st, 2022)
• Home Improvement: Evaluating Secular Changes in NLSY HOME-Cognitive Stimulation and Emotional Support Scores (Free Access until March 31st, 2022)
• The Role of Parents’ School Climate Perceptions on Attainment Expectations for Black Middle Schoolers (Free Access until March 31st, 2022)
• An Introduction to the Special Section on Multiracial Families: The Challenges, Strengths, and Work that Remains (Free Access until April 30th, 2022)
• Counting Families, Counting Race: Assessing Visible Family Structural Change among Multiracial Families, 1980–2018 (Free Access until April 30th, 2022)
• She’s Biracial, but She’s Still Black: Reflections from Monoracial African American Parents Raising Biracial Children (Free Access until April 30th, 2022)
• Race, Multiraciality, Income, and Infant Mortality: Markers of Racial Equity (Free Access until 30th, 2022)
• Loving Across Racial Lines: Associations between Gender and Partner Race and the Health of Young Adults (Free Access until 30th, 2022)

Volume 30 (2021)

• Hope as a Protective Factor: Relations to Adverse Childhood Experiences, Delinquency, and Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms (Free Access until December 31st, 2021)
• Risk Factors, Promotive Factors, and Gainful Activity in a Sample of Youth Engaged in Delinquent Behaviors (Free Access until December 31st, 2021)
• Associations among African American Parents’ Beliefs, Involvement, and Measures of School Readiness (Free Access until December 31st, 2021)
• Associations between Paid Paternity Leave and Parental Mental Health Across the Transition to Parenthood: Evidence from a Repeated-Measure Study of First-Time Parents in California (Free Access until December 31st, 2021)
• The Multiphase Optimization Strategy (MOST) in Child Maltreatment Prevention Research (Free access until November 30th)
• Effects of a Brief Parenting Intervention in Shelters for Mothers and Their Children Experiencing Homelessness (Free access until October 31st)
• Child Welfare Services Response to COVID-19: Addressing Face-to-Face Contacts (Free Access until September 30, 2021)
• Caregiver Strain, Social Support, and Mental Health Service Use Among Urban African American Mothers (Free Access until August 31, 2021)
• Longitudinal Associations Between Parental SES and Adolescent Health-Related Quality of Life Using Growth Curve Modeling (Free Access until July 31, 2021)