Contemporary grandparenting : changing family relationships in global contexts
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- ISBN: 9781847429674 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 184742967X
- ISBN: 9781847429681 (hbk.)
- ISBN: 1847429688 (hbk.)
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Physical Description:
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xiii, 270 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Publisher: Bristol ; Chicago, IL : Policy, 2012.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | A new look at grandparenting / Virpi Timonen and Sara Arber -- Part one. Grandparents responding to economic and family transformations. Transformations in the role of grandparents across welfare states / Katharina Herlofson and Gunhild O. Hagestad ; The wellbeing of grandparents caring for grandchildren in rural China and the United States / Lindsey 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 -- part two. Grandparent identities and agency. 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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Subject: | Grandparenting Social aspects |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Kirtland Community College Library | HQ 759.9 .C66 2012 | 30775305464738 | General Collection | Available | - |