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In my heart he's still there: children's responses to the death of a grandparent
- Author:
- RENZENBRINK Irene
- Journal article citation:
- Irish Social Worker, 20(3/4), Winter 2002, pp.11-12.
- Publisher:
- Irish Association of Social Workers
Briefly reports on two Australian studies exploring what children thought and felt about their grandparents death, and the interaction between parents and children at the time of the death.
Social security
- Author:
- VAUX Gary
- Journal article citation:
- Research Matters, April 2002, pp.69-74.
- Publisher:
- Community Care
Kinship carers, particularly grandparents, often struggle financially after taking on the upbringing of a relative's child. Argues that it is then vital that they receive the best possible benefits advice.
Grandparent support for families of children with down's syndrome
- Authors:
- HASTINGS Richard P., THOMAS Hannah, DELWICHE Nicole
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 15(1), 2002, pp.97-104.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Although grandparents are recognised as an important source of support for families of children with intellectual and other disabilities, there has been very little research in this area. The aim of the present paper is to present a brief overview of the literature, and to present data from a preliminary study of relationships between parental stress and grandparent support and conflict.
African American grandmothers as caregivers: answering the call to help their grandchildren
- Author:
- GIBSON Priscilla A.
- Journal article citation:
- Families in Society, 83(1), January 2002, pp.35-43.
- Publisher:
- The Alliance for Children and Families
African American grandmother are increasingly assuming the role of caring for their grandchildren whose parents are absent from the household. This article uses a phenomenological perspective to describe, in their own words, the experience of 12 African American grandmothers and why they assumed the parental role for their grandchildren. Six interrelated themes emerged: tradition of kinkeeping; relationship with grandchildren; distrust of the foster care systems; grandmother as only the resource; strong relationship with the lord; and refusal of the grandchild's other grandchildren to assist with cargiving. These themes are used as a guide to make recommendations to enhance the lives of grandmothers.
Making sense of Alzheimer's disease in an intergenerational context: the case of a Japanese Canadian-nisei (second-generation)-headed family
- Authors:
- SMITH Andre P., KOBAYASHI Karen M.
- Journal article citation:
- Dementia: the International Journal of Social Research and Practice, 1(2), June 2002, pp.213-225.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This article presents a case study of a nisei (second-generation)-headed Japanese Canadian family in which the father was referred for clinical evaluation at a dementia clinic and diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. This case study identifies the traditional issei (first-generation) Japanese Canadian values of filial obligation and shame and awareness of the father's life history as salient mediators in family members' interpretations of dementia symptoms. A discussion of the role of the clinical evaluation in arbitrating between divergent interpretations of the nature of the father's disruptive behavior among family members is included.
Middle-age adults, family support and social policy in France
- Author:
- OGG Jim
- Journal article citation:
- Generations Review, 21(1), April 2002, pp.14-16.
- Publisher:
- British Society of Gerontology
Looks at recent socio-demographic changes in France which are beginning to challenge some of France's key legal and social policy measures concerning the family and the role that middle-age adults have in supporting other family members. In particular they raise issues that touch on the motives for family support and how the State intervenes in family life.
Empowering African American custodial grandparents
- Author:
- COX Carole B.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work: A journal of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), 47(1), January 2002, pp.45-54.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
The increase in grandparent-headed households is receiving much attention as the needs and concerns of these grandparents become more widely known. However, to the extent that services focus on the problems of this population, there is an inherent danger in overlooking their unique strengths and abilities. Empowerment training builds on these strengths to enable people to develop self-efficacy and their own problem-solving skills. In so doing, those empowered grandparents further empower the communities in which they live. This article describes an empowerment training project and its curriculum that was developed for a group of African American grandparents. The programme resulted in strengthened parenting skills, and development of the participants into community peer educators.
The history of grandmothers in the African-American community
- Author:
- JIMENEZ Jillian
- Journal article citation:
- Social Service Review, 76(4), December 2002, pp.523-551.
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
This article examines the role of grandmothers in the African-American community from Reconstruction through the New Deal. It suggests that grandmothers were central to the economic survival of their families and worked as long as they lived, in paid labor and household labor, to help provide for their families. Grandmothers had many roles in their communities: they were midwives, purveyors of domestic medicine, and caretakers of children. Grandmothers were the source of oral histories and narratives that helped their grandchildren resist the oppression of the larger society.
Parental incarceration: recent trends and implications for child welfare
- Authors:
- JOHNSON Elizabeth L., WALDFOGEL Jane
- Journal article citation:
- Social Service Review, 76(3), September 2002, pp.460-479.
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
Using national survey data, the authors analysed 11-year trends in parental incarceration. Results indicate that children with incarcerated parents have become an increasingly large share of the foster care population since the mid-1980s and a notable share of U.S. children living with grandparent caregivers. Findings underscore the need to develop and implement specific child welfare and criminal justice policies for serving these families.
Self-reported physical health among older surrogate parents to children orphaned and affected by HIV disease
- Authors:
- JOSLIN D., HARRISON R.
- Journal article citation:
- AIDS Care, 14(5), October 2002, pp.619-624.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Around the globe, older relatives, largely grandparents, have become the surrogate parents to children and adolescents orphaned by parental death from HIV/AIDS and to those whose infected parents are too ill to serve as their primary caregivers. Largely invisible to research, programme and policy initiatives, these older surrogate parents face compounded stress and the risk of neglected