Contemporary grandparenting : changing family relationships in global contexts /
Contemporary grandparenting : changing family relationships in global contexts /
edited by Sara Arber and Virpi Timonen.
- Bristol : Policy, 2012.
- xiii, 270 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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.
9781847429674 (pbk.) 184742967X (pbk.) 9781847429681 (hbk.) 1847429688 (hbk.)
Grandparenting--Social aspects.
HQ759.9 / .C65 2012
306.8745
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.
9781847429674 (pbk.) 184742967X (pbk.) 9781847429681 (hbk.) 1847429688 (hbk.)
Grandparenting--Social aspects.
HQ759.9 / .C65 2012
306.8745