Full Description
This exciting collection presents an in-depth, up-to-date analysis of the unprecedented phenomenon of increasing numbers of grandparents worldwide, co-existing and interacting for longer periods of time with their grandchildren.
Contents
Introduction: Widening the lens on grandparenting ‾ By Virpi Timonen;
Section 1: The demographic and welfare state contexts of grandparenting;
The demography of grandparenthood in Europe and North America ‾ by Rachel Margolis and Bruno Arpino;
Grandparental childcare: A re-conceptualisation of family policy regimes ‾ by Debora Price, Eloi Ribe, Giorgio Di Gessa and Karen Glaser;
Section 2: Grandparenting in contexts of economic and societal development;
Grandparenting in developing Southeast Asia: Comparative perspectives from Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam ‾ by John Knodel and Bussarawan Teerawichitchainan;
Second parenthood realities, Third Age ideals: (grand)parenthood in the context of poverty and HIV/AIDS ‾ by Jaco Hoffman;
Section 3: Transnational grandparenting;
Transnational grandparenting: The intersection of transnationalism and translocality ‾ Yanqiu Rachel Zhou;
Transnational grandmother-grandchild relationships in the context of migration from Lithuania to Ireland ‾ by Dovile Vildaite;
Section 4: Gender, intersectionalities and grandparenting
The composition of grandparent childcare: Gendered patterns in cross-national perspective ‾ by Lyn Craig, Myra Hamilton and Judith E. Brown;
Class-based grandfathering practices in Finland ‾ by Hanna Ojala and Ilkka Pietila;
Grandfamilies in the United States: An intersectional analysis by Megan Dolbin-MacNab and April Few Demo;
Section 5: Grandparental roles, agency and influence;
How grandparents influence the religiosity of their grandchildren: a mixed methods study of three-generation families in the United States ‾ by Vern Bengtson and Merril Silverstein;
Can Chinese grandparents say no? A comparison of grandmothers in two Asian cities ‾ by Esther C. L. Goh and Shengli Wang;
"I am not that type of a grandparent": (non-) compliance with the grandmother archetype among contemporary Czech grandparents ‾ Lucie Gal?anová and Lucie Vidovi?ová;
Conclusions ‾ by Virpi Timonen.
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