Contemporary grandparenting : changing family relationships in global contexts /: changing family relationships in global contexts. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Sara Arber and Virpi Timonen.
• Other Names: Arber, Sara, 1949-; Timonen, Virpi
• Contents: 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. 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. 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. 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. '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.
• Publisher Details: Bristol Chicago : Policy
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 270 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 306.8/745; Grandparenting -- Social aspects; Grandparent and child; Grandparenting; Grandparents as parents; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Parenting -- Grandparenting; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Marriage & Family; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781847429698; 1847429696
• Related ISBNs: 9781847429681; 1847429688; 9781847429674; 184742967X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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