Contemporary grandparenting: Changing family relationships in global contexts
Contemporary grandparenting: Changing family relationships in global contexts
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Abstract
Grandparenting in the 21st century is at the heart of profound family and societal changes. It is of increasing social and economic significance yet many dimensions of grandparenting are still poorly understood. Contemporary Grandparenting 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. In this highly original book, leading contributors analyse how grandparenting differs according to the nature of the welfare state and the cultural context, how family breakdown influences grandparenting, and explore men's changing roles as grandfathers. Grandparents today face conflicting norms and expectations about their roles, but act with agency to forge new identities within the context of societal and cultural constraints. Contemporary Grandparenting illuminates key issues relevant to students and researchers from sociology and social policy, including in the fields of family, childhood, ageing and gender studies.
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Front Matter
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A new look at grandparenting
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Part One Grandparents responding to economic and family transformations
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Transformations in the role of grandparents across welfare states
Katharina Herlofson andGunhild O. Hagestad
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The wellbeing of grandparents caring for grandchildren in China and the United States
Lindsey Baker andMerril Silverstein
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Grandmothers juggling work and grandchildren in the United States
Madonna Harrington Meyer
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Solidarity, ambivalence and multigenerational co-residence in Hong Kong
Lisanne S.F. Ko
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Grandparenting in the context of care for grandchildren by foreign domestic workers
Shirley Hsiao-li Sun
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Transformations in the role of grandparents across welfare states
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Part Two Grandparent identities and agency
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Being there yet not interfering: the paradoxes of grandparenting
Vanessa May and others
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Grandparental agency after adult children's divorce
Virpi Timonen andMartha Doyle
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Grandfathering: the construction of new identities and masculinities
Anna Tarrant
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Understanding adolescent grandchildren's influence on their grandparents
Alice Delerue Matos andRita Borges Neves
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Social contact between grandparents and older grandchildren: a three-generation perspective
Katharina Mahne andOliver Huxhold
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Grandparenting in the 21st century: new directions
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Being there yet not interfering: the paradoxes of grandparenting
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End Matter
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