Contemporary grandparenting : changing family relationships in global contexts / edited by Sara Arber and Virpi Timonen.


Bristol : Policy, 2012.
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Notes:

  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • A new look at grandparenting / Virpi Timonen and Sara Arber — Transformations in the role of grandparents across welfare states / Katharina Herlofson and Gunhild H. Hagestad — The wellbeing of grandparents caring for grandchildren in rural China and the United States / Linsey Baker and Merril Silverstein — Grandmothers juggling work and grandchildren in the United States / Madonna Harrington Meyer — Solidarity, ambivalence and multigenerational co-residence in Hong Kong / Lisanne S.F. Ko — Grandparenting in the context of care for grandchildren by foreign domestic workers / Shirley Hsiao-Li Sun — Being there, yet not interfering: the paradoxes of grandparenting / Vanessa May, Jennifer Mason and Lynda Clarke — Grandparental agency after adult children’s divorce / Virpi Timonen and Martha Doyle — Grandfathering: the construction of new identities and masculinities / Anna Tarrant — Understanding adolescent grandchildren’s influence on their grandparents / Alice Delerue Matos and Rita Borges Neves — Social contact between grandparents and older grandchildren: a three-generation perspective / Katharina Mahne and Oliver Huxhold — Grandparenting in the 21st century: new directions / Sara Arber and Virpi Timonen.

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