In this paper, we draw upon insights from the developmental psychological literature on
younger families to investigate within-family differences in parent–adult child relations in …

The importance of parental favoritism in childhood and adulthood has been well
documented; little is known, however, about changes over time in such within‐family …

Central features of children's family experiences are structured by the composition of the
family and by the nature of family interaction. Single-parent and stepparent families are …

Objective This article examines the transmission of older women's relationship quality with
their mothers and fathers to their relationship quality with their own adult children in midlife …

Despite a powerful social norm that parents should treat offspring equally, beginning in early
childhood and continuing through adulthood, parents often differentiate among their children …

Objectives Our goal was to extend research on within-family differences in mother–child
relations in later life by focusing on 2 social structural characteristics of mothers and …

We examined a possible predictor of (step) parent–adult child closeness in adulthood,
namely, the frequency of parental involvement in different child-rearing tasks during youth …

Longitudinal data from the National Survey of Families and Households were analyzed to
explore continuity and change in parent-child relations as children make the transition to …

Data were collected from 708 adult children nested within 274 later‐life families from the
Within‐Family Differences Study to explore the role of perceived maternal favoritism in the …

Life course and current family factors associated with individual differences in parent–child
relationships were investigated in a sample of 467 children from 192 families, including …