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Amanda is a doctoral student of Family Social Science. She received her B.A. in psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and her M.S. degree in Human Development and Family Studies at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She has strong research interests in kinship ties among grandparent caregivers, family caregiving, gender issues with aging, intergenerational families, and later life family decision-making processes.

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