I am extremely grateful for the assistance of a very large number of people and organizations. Grants from the National Institutes of Health program on Intergenerational Family Resource Allocation (funded by the National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development and the National Institute on Aging) and the National Science Foundation (Social, Behavorial and Economic Research, SES-0239995) supported this work. Emily Click, Beth Crosa, Joshua Dubrow, Donald McGrath, and Alexis Yamokoski all provided research assistance at various stages of the project. Tina Drenovas of the Department of Sociology provided clerical assistance, and the Initiative in Population Research, the Center for Human Resource Research (CHRR), and the Mershon Center at Ohio State University gave me space to work on the research. I drew on joint work with Phillip Kim and Howard Aldrich in Chapter Seven and previously published papers in Chapters Five and Six. In addition, I previously published related work in several places, including the following: “Sharing the Wealth: Siblings and Adult Wealth Ownership,” Demography, 2003, 40:521–42; “Race, Family Structure, and Wealth: The Effect of Childhood Family on Adult Asset Accumulation,” Sociological Perspectives, 2004, 47:161–87; and “Religion and Wealth: The Role of Religious Affiliation and Participation in Early Adult Asset Accumulation,” Social Forces, 2003, 82:173–205.