Differences in mothers’ and fathers’ parental favoritism in later life: A within-family approach

Kinship and Cohort in an Aging Society: From Generation to Generation

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 11-30

  Suitor, J Jill ^a   Pillemer, Karl ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

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