Amazing grace : African American grandmothers as caregivers and conveyors of traditional values /

Intergenerational African families in which the grandmother is the primary caregiver of grandchildren and great-grandchildren are increasing rapidly in American society. Over the past decade, researchers and policy makers have shown considerable concern over the increases in grandparent-maintained h...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Smith-Ruiz, Dorothy
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2004.
Subjects:
Grandparents as parents > United States.
African American grandmothers.
Grands-parents à nouveau parents > États-Unis.
Grands-mères noires américaines.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Parenting > Grandparenting.
African American grandmothers
Grandparents as parents
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Slavery, family, and religion : the traditional roles of older African American women in the antebellum south during the nineteenth cerntury
  • Related research : grandparent caregiving
  • Methodology : the custodial African American grandmother study
  • Social and demographic characteristics
  • Factors influencing life satisfaction among
  • Social facrors, health status, and depression
  • Voices of custodial grandmothers : dominant themes.

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