J. Jill Suitor

Jaclynn Jill Suitor (born 1954) is an American Distinguished Professor of Sociology and a member of the Center on Aging and the Life Course at Purdue University. Her research focuses primarily on the relationship between parents and adult children. Since 2000, she has led the Within-Family Differences Study, a panel investigation of the predictors and consequences of parental favoritism in the middle and later years among more than 500 multigenerational families. She is an elected Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and an elected member of the Sociological Research Association. Provided by Wikipedia