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Contemporary Grandparenting : Changing Family Relationships in Global Contexts /

This is the first book to take a sociological approach to grandparenting across diverse country contexts and combines new theorising with up-to-date empirical findings to document the changing nature of grandparenting across global contexts.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Timonen, Virpi, Arber, Sara, 1949-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : Policy, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Contemporary grandparenting; Contents; List of tables and figures; Tables; Figures; Notes on contributors; 1. A new look at grandparenting; Demographics of grandparenting; Earlier frameworks for research on grandparenthood; Gender, generation and grandparenting; Influences of societal and cultural contexts on grandparenting; Grandparenting norms, identities and agency; Conclusion; Part One: Grandparents responding to economic and family transformations; 2. Transformations in the role of grandparents across welfare states; Introduction: the many images of modern grandparenthood. 
505 0 |a The focus of the chapterThe demography of grandparenthood; Is there a grandparenthood role? Surprising Norwegian findings; Comparative data on role expectations and role enactment in European societies; Grandparental roles in the context of wider family responsibilities; The substitution versus complementarity debate revisited; Grandparents as 'mother savers' or 'family savers'; Conclusion; 3. The wellbeing of grandparents caring for grandchildren in China and the United States; Introduction; Custodial grandparenting in rural China; Comparing custodial grandparenting in the US and China. 
505 0 |a Methods and dataDepression among Chinese and US custodial grandparents; Resources of grandparents in rural China; Depressive symptoms among grandparents in rural China; Discussion and conclusion; 4. Grandmothers juggling work and grandchildren in the United States; Introduction; Decrease in support from the US welfare state and employers; Increase in the need for 'granny care'; Data and methodology; Grandmothers juggling paid work and care work; Using paid work to set boundaries; Using work to finance grandchild care; Responsibilities for ageing parents; Discussion and conclusion. 
505 0 |a 5. Solidarity, ambivalence and multigenerational co-residence in Hong KongIntroduction; Theoretical approaches to intergenerational relationships; Living in Hong Kong; Methods; Multigenerational co-residence as an act of filial piety; Centrality of functional solidarity?; Normative solidarity in connection with ambivalence; Discussion and conclusion; 6. Grandparenting in the context of care for grandchildren by foreign domestic workers; Introduction; Study context: contemporary Singapore (since 2000); Methods and data collection. 
505 0 |a 'Assumed' consensual solidarity and normative solidarity between the (prospective) parental generation and grandparent generationNegotiating solidarity: grandparents as moral guardians; Existence of functional solidarity and patterns of associational solidarity; Ambivalence; Discussion and conclusion; Part Two: Grandparent identities and agency; 7. Being there yet not interfering: the paradoxes of grandparenting; Introduction; Norms, paradoxes and ambivalence; The study; 'Not interfering' and the paradox of parenting; 'Being there' and the paradox of self-determination; Parents as gatekeepers. 
520 |a This is the first book to take a sociological approach to grandparenting across diverse country contexts and combines new theorising with up-to-date empirical findings to document the changing nature of grandparenting across global contexts. 
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650 7 |a Grandparenting.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst00946366 
650 7 |a Grandparent and child.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst00946360 
650 7 |a SOCIAL SCIENCE  |x Sociology  |x Marriage & Family.  |2 bisacsh 
650 7 |a FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS  |x Parenting  |x Grandparenting.  |2 bisacsh 
650 0 |a Grandparenting  |x Social aspects. 
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