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1. Affiliation, Pride, Exchange, and Distance in Grandparents' Accounts of Relationships With Their College-Aged Grandchildren

Author

Harwood, Jake and Lin, Mei-Chen

Subjects
Grandparents -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Grandparent and child -- Social aspects, Intergenerational relations -- Research, Sociology and social work
Abstract

This article examines the relationships between grandparents and their college-aged grandchildren. The article includes thematic analysis of pride, exchange, affiliation and general orientation of the intergenerational grandchild-granparents relations.

Published
2000

2. The good, the bad, and the worrisome: emotional complexities in grandparents' experiences with individual grandchildren

Author

Fingerman, Karen L.

Subjects
Family -- Research, Grandparents -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Grandparent and child -- Research, Family and marriage
Abstract

Ninety-one grandparents, evenly divided by gender and age, were interviewed regarding their relationships with each of their grandchildren. They also described the particular grandchild whom they considered to be special and one about whom they worry. Also, a subset of grandparents provided the characteristics of a grandchild who irritated them. Results showed that most grandparents considered a grandchild as either special, worrisome or irritating based on personal reasons.

Published
1998

3. Call me grandpa Poppins

Author

Fedder, Josh

Subjects
Grandparents -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Grandparenting -- Personal narratives, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: JOSH FEDDER FACTS & ARGUMENTS / THE ESSAY Help! It all began with a frantic phone call from my son. His children's daycare was closing. There was no one [...]

Published
2012

4. Restoring House to Home After the Floods in Queens

Author

Miller, Winter

Subjects
Grandparents -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Post-disaster reconstruction -- Social aspects, Queens, New York, New York -- Social aspects
Abstract

When a storm hit New York on Aug. 8, bringing a tornado and torrential rain, Kathleen Conway's neighborhood in Woodside, Queens, was hit hard. Sewage and water flooded her live-in […]

Published
2007

5. Grandparents Care for Siblings Orphaned by Violence

Author

Sullivan, John

Subjects
Victims of crimes -- Social aspects -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Conjugal violence -- Influence -- Social aspects, Grandparents -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Wife abuse -- Influence -- Social aspects
Abstract

At an age when most people are thinking of retirement, Oscar Mayorga is concerned about how to find more work. 'I know I can work, but I am old,' Mr. […]

Published
2007

7. Trajectories of grandparents' perceived solidarity with adult grandchildren: a growth curve analysis over 23 years

Author

Silverstein, Merril and Long, Jeffrey D.

Subjects
Grandparents -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Grandparent and child -- Research, Family and marriage
Abstract

Patterns of change in grandparents' beliefs about affection and in-person contact and geographic nearness with adult grandchildren over five points of measurement between 1971 and 1994 were determined. Information from the Longitudinal Study of Generations were employed. Hierarchical linear modeling showed quadratic trends in both growth curves. Affection decreased over the first 14 years and then gradually reversed.

Published
1998

8. Parenting in the Grand Manner

Author

Frederick, Heather Vogel

Subjects
Grandparents -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Booksellers -- Demographic aspects -- Finance, Publishing industry -- Finance, Advertising, marketing and public relations, Business, Publishing industry, Company financing, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Finance, Demographic aspects
Abstract

Call it the boomerang effect. Baby boomers, who provide much of the fuel for the current brisk market in parenting and child-care books, are sprouting grandchildren in ever-increasing quantities these [...]

Published
1998

9. How to cope with 'meddling' grandparents

Author

Rosemond, John

Subjects
Grandparents -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Child rearing -- Psychological aspects, Parent and child -- Psychological aspects
Published
1986

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