VICTORIA HILKEVITCH BEDFORD is Assistant Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Indianapolis. She received her Ph.D. in developmental psychology from Rutgers University, and was a National Institute on Aging Postdoctoral Fellow with the Midwest Council for Social Research on Aging. Her research interests and publications are in family relationships of middle-aged and old adults (especially sibling relationships), family relations in a social network context, and attachment across the lifespan.