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Education 1993 Ph.D., Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1988 M.A., Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1980 B.A., Philosophy, College of William and Mary Recent Research Project Sibling influences on parent-adult child relations – This research (with Profs. Spitze and Ward) extends work on how relations between parents and adult children are imbedded in and influenced by relationships with other adult children. Innovative methods are applied to examine the processes by which families allocate intergenerational support between parents and multiple adult children.