No matter how connected or distant they may be, siblings have a strong influence on a person\u2019s life, from social development to identity formation. Kimberly Updegraff, professor in Purdue University\u2019s Department of Human Development and Family Science, recognized the important role her own siblings played in her life, and beginning in graduate school, she took her first steps in trying to understand more about sibling relationships and how they can shape an individual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":11534,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,19],"tags":[263,1161,1791,1793,1790,1792,240,1345],"class_list":["post-11533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-development-and-family-studies","category-research","tag-college-of-health-and-human-sciences","tag-department-of-human-development-and-family-science","tag-family-research","tag-family-based-prevention-program","tag-kimberly-updegraff","tag-latino-families","tag-purdue-university","tag-siblings"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n