Contemporary Grandparenting: Changing Family Relationships in Global Contexts

doi:10.46692/9781847429698

Contemporary Grandparenting

Changing Family Relationships in Global Contexts

This 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.

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Contemporary Grandparenting

Changing Family Relationships in Global Contexts

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Frontmatter
pp i-ii

Dedication
pp iii-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

List of tables and figures
pp vii-viii

Notes on contributors
pp ix-xiv

one - A new look at grandparenting
pp 1-24

Part One - Grandparents responding to economic and family transformations
pp 25-26

two - Transformations in the role of grandparents across welfare states
pp 27-50

three - The wellbeing of grandparents caring for grandchildren in China and the United States
pp 51-70

four - Grandmothers juggling work and grandchildren in the United States
pp 71-90

five - Solidarity, ambivalence and multigenerational co-residence in Hong Kong
pp 91-112

six - Grandparenting in the context of care for grandchildren by foreign domestic workers
pp 113-136

Part Two - Grandparent identities and agency
pp 137-138

seven - Being there yet not interfering: the paradoxes of grandparenting
pp 139-158

eight - Grandparental agency after adult children’s divorce
pp 159-180

nine - Grandfathering: the construction of new identities and masculinities
pp 181-202

ten - Understanding adolescent grandchildren’s influence on their grandparents
pp 203-224

eleven - Social contact between grandparents and older grandchildren: a three-generation perspective
pp 225-246

twelve - Grandparenting in the 21st century: new directions
pp 247-264

Index
pp 265-270

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