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Spitze, Glenna; Trent, Katherine – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2006
We examine affective closeness, contact, and helping among adult siblings using data for over 1,500 respondents in 2-child families from the National Survey of Families and Households. Using this subsample allows us to investigate differences by gender of respondent and of individual siblings using a nationally representative sample. We find that…
Descriptors: Sibling Relationship, Intimacy, Gender Differences, Siblings