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Showing 1 to 20 of 98 for “"Grandchildren"”.
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The Health of Rural Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
… increasingly responsible for raising their grandchildren. Previous studies have noted physical and mental health limitations for custodial grandparents. Grandparents face numerous challenges in raising grandchildren and consequently, experience high stress levels. However, coping and social …
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Resilience and spirituality among grandparents raising their grandchildren
… grandparents are responsible for raising their grandchildren. Grandparent caregivers face altered developmental paths compared to their noncaregiving peers. Past research has focused on health concerns and coping mechanisms that assist these grandparents in their parenting role, but have largely …
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Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: An Investigation of Identified Burdens
… who are primarily responsible for raising their grandchildren face life-altering choices with little support. This study sought to identify the burdens faced by grandparents raising their grandchildren. Grandparents who find themselves as parents again experienced several difficulties such as …
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Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: Implications for School Systems and School Personnel
… to ensure the educational success of their grandchildren. I developed a survey based on concerns and issues that were cited in the literature to determine grandparent's awareness of the services provided by the public schools, the extent to which their student utilized them, and other …
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Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: Perceptions of Schools and Implications for Best Practices
… the traditional role in the lives of their grandchildren, grandparents have assumed full responsibility for raising them during times of crisis. The number of children living in households headed by grandparents increased from 2.2 million in 1970 to 4.9 million in 2010. Since grandparents …
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Nagyszülők és unokák. A nagyszülőktől az unokák felé irányuló gondozási transzferek jellege és változása = Grandparents and grandchildren. Features and changes in care transfers from grandparents to grandchildren
A dolgozat célja elsősorban a nagyszülői gyermekgondozás, mint az intergenerációs transzferek egyik fajtájának bemutatása és leírása, illetve a generációs változások és a mögöttük lévő lehetséges okok azonosítása. _____ This paper is primarily intended to present and describe grandparental care as …
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Perceptions of Intergenerational Bonds: The Comparison Between Grandfathers and their Adult Grandchildren
… perceptions held by grandfathers and their adult grandchildren and to compare their perceptions of bonding within their intergenerational relationships. The sample consisted of 8 Latter-Day Saint grandfathers residing in Virginia and West Virginia who were between 62 and 88 years of age. For each …
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An exploratory investigation of the interactional patterns of grandparents and college-age grandchildren
A random sample of one hundred-eighty seven college students currently enrolled at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (V.P.I. & S.U.) with living grandparents was utilized in an attempt to verify the existence of various styles of grandparenting and to test the relationship between …
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Symbiotic Caregivers: A Qualitative Case Study of African American Custodial Grandparents and Their Grandchildren
… County, Tennessee, who are responsible for grandchildren. In Memphis only, there are 9,213 grandparents who are responsible for their grandchildren (U.S. Census Bureau, 2000). The Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) 2003 report (2003) showed that 42% of Tennessee grandparents who were …
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A Qualitative Examination of Resilience Among Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Using the Resilience Portfolio Model
… policy, and practice centered on caregiving with grandchildren. Although some studies have explored areas such as grandparents’ resourcefulness, positive caregiving appraisal, protective factors, and social support separately, there is a call for more holistic examination of their strength and …
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African American Grandparents Raising Their Grandchildren in Rural Areas: A Phenomenological Investigation in South Georgia
<p>Grandparents are increasingly raising their grandchildren in the United States of America. Those grandparents who live in rural areas face limited resources to help them raise their grandchildren. This phenomenological study is an investigation of the phenomenon of African American grandparents …
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Design and development of an augmented reality platform to connect grandparents and grandchildren across distances
… the relationship between grandparents and their grandchildren, with a focus on people that are separated by distance. This paper details the design and development of an augmented reality platform that was designed to help create a platform for play, where stories, experiences, and skills can be …
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Perspectives of African American Grandmothers as Primary Caregivers: Informally Educating Their Grandchildren to Promote School Success
… grandmothers about informally educating their grandchildren to promote school success. Attention was focused on the role the African American primary caregiver grandmother plays in promoting the school success of her grandchild at home. The study also identifies what support systems and or …
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Impact of the child-parent relationship on affectual solidarity between grandchildren and grandparents : the perspective of young adults
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Grandparents raising grandchildren: population characteristics, perceived neighborhood risk, alcohol use, and drug misuse as predictors of emotional well being
… characteristics of grandparents raising grandchildren within state child welfare systems across the United States and examines the role of neighborhood conditions and alcohol and drug (AOD) consumption as predictors of these surrogate parents’ emotional well being. The Short-Form 12 …
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Grandchildren's Perceptions of Caring for Grandparents
… of gerontology, the developmental experiences of grandchildren caregivers and the meanings of their caregiving experiences have not been explored in previous empirical work. Influenced by symbolic interactionism theory and the life course and life-span perspectives, the research questions that …
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