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Raising grandkids : inside skip-generation families /

"Focusing on grandparent headed households, Gary Garrison examines his own experience as a caregiver to his step-grandchildren and the experiences of others in similar situations, to paint an illuminating picture of grandparents who have put their lives on hold to raise their children's ch...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Garrison, Gary, 1948- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Regina, Saskatchewan : University of Regina Press, 2018.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Grandparents into the breach
  • The CANGRANDs campout: a great-grandmother's love leaps three generation gaps
  • Child welfare: keep out!
  • The pride of grandparents: a support group meets
  • Foster care: parenting by the dozen
  • Healing from broken attachments
  • A family dinner: triggers on the menu
  • Indigenous grandparenting: one food in every canoe
  • On the reserve
  • Dances with ants
  • A three-generation brain dance
  • Raising a skipped-generation FASD child
  • In the line of fire: shell shock and self-care
  • I survive, I rescue, I organize: the roaring grandma
  • Thank you, grandma
  • Caseworkers' conflicting priorities: closing files vs. helping children
  • Grandparents and the survival of the species.