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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"custodial grandparents"”.
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Adapting Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) to Custodial Grandparents
… more common for children to be raised by their grandparents. In fact, over the past 40 years, there has been a 50% increase in grandparent-headed homes in the US (Ellis and Simmons, 2014). Custodial grandparents, who provide primary caregiving responsibilities for their grandchildren, often …
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Symbiotic Caregivers: A Qualitative Case Study of African American Custodial Grandparents and Their Grandchildren
… Community Survey show that there are 11,436 grandparents in Shelby 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 …
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Lived Experiences and Attributes of Custodial Grandparents that Influence Their Grandchild's Early Learning and Development: A Phenomenological Study
… A majority of these relative caregivers are grandparents who take on full-time caregiving responsibility for their grandchildren. Custodial grandparenting differs from typical parenting and other kinship caregiving. The focus of this study was the nonnormative experience of grandparents …
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The Health of Rural Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
<p><strong>Introduction:</strong> Grandparents are becoming 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, …
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Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: Perceptions of Schools and Implications for Best Practices
… to changing social conditions, the role of grandparents in America is being redefined. Rather than playing 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 …
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Examination of Role Satisfaction and Mental Health of Caregiving Grandparents
Research has shown that the number of caregiving grandparents in America has steadily increased. If this trend continues there will be more of a need for society to recognize this population and the difficulties that they face due to the atypical structure of these households. Research has produced …
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Antecedents of the Psychological Adjustment of Children and Grandparent Caregivers in Grandparent-Headed Families
… two parent intact families as compared to grandparents co-parenting in a multi-generation home, skipped generation grandparents (raising their grandchild with no parent present) or single parents. Skipped generation grandparents in particular reported most caregiver aggravation. Child …