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Showing 1 to 20 of 71 for “"grandmothers"”.
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"Education at last! Taiwanese grandmothers ""go to school"""
"Language socialization is a life-long process in which individuals are continuously socialized into new roles, statuses, and practices. This process becomes more complex in multilingual contexts. However, we know little of the language socialization of older adults and we know even less of …
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"Sacred activism": The International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers
The International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers--composed of healers ranging in age from fifty-seven to eighty-six and located in Alaska; North, South, and Central America; Africa; and Asia--practice what they describe as "sacred activism" to counteract colonialism's negative impact …
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CUSTODIAL GRANDMOTHERS RAISING CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES AND THE STRESSORS THEY FACE
<p>ABSTRACT</p> <p>Stressors that custodial grandmothers face while raising children with disabilities can be more overwhelming compared to stressors experienced by grandmothers of non-disabled children. Strategies and various supports were looked into in order to determine how custodial …
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DIETARY PATTERNS OF A GROUP OF CHILDREN, THEIR MOTHERS AND GRANDMOTHERS LIVING IN SASKATOON
… of children, their biological mothers, and grandmothers, in terms of percent of energy as macronutrients, servings from food groups, and intake of selected micronutrients; to determine generational differences in dietary patterns; to determine if there was a family influence on dietary …
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Grandmothers' and mothers' emotion socialization through intergenerational reminiscing in underrepresented families in the U.S.
… on maternal emotion socialization by examining grandmothers' role in socializing children's emotions, given the prominence of grandparents' involvement in caregiving tasks for minority and underrepresented families. I also incorporate indirectness, a concept that is well-established in …
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Perspectives of African American Grandmothers as Primary Caregivers: Informally Educating Their Grandchildren to Promote School Success
… of African American primary caregiver 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 …
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African American custodial grandmothers perceptions of stress factors that impact their well-being and family relationships
… study was to examine African American custodial grandmothers perceptions of stressors that impact their well-being and family relationships in the Greater Houston, Texas (Harris County) area. The study explored various factors such as age, marital status, finances, circumstances resulting in …
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Adolescent Mothers' Relationships With Their Mothers: Communication, Support and Shared Caregiving
… mothers and their mothers, referred to as grandmothers. Mothers and grandmothers reported increased communication, with a focus on the grandchildren and parenting after the mother's initiation of parenting. Grandmothers also wanted to prepare mothers for independence and self-sufficiency …
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Surrogate parenting : exploring the perceptions of challenges faced by grandmothers of AIDS orphans with regard to child rearing in Khayelitsha
… the perceptions of the challenges faced by grandmothers caring for AIDS orphans in Khayelitsha, a township on the outskirts of Cape Town. The aim of this study was to make a contribution to an understanding of the challenges faced by grandmothers who are performing a surrogate parent role. …
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‘Behind the scenes’: Stories of grandmothering in the neonatal intensive care unit. An autoethnographic, narrative study
… is concerned with listening to the stories of grandmothers who had a critically ill grandchild in a neonatal intensive care unit. There is a wealth of research on the parents of premature or sick babies, but the parents’ parents are an ignored area in nursing and midwifery literature. In July …
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Lived experiences of becoming and being a young maternal grandmother: An interpretative phenomenological analysis
… grandparenthood made in the 1980s. Maternal grandmothers have been reported to be the most involved grandparent in the lives of their grandchildren. Further, there is likelihood that the transition to young maternal grandmotherhood is a consequence of young motherhood (of mother and/or …
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A women’s talking circle: A narrative study of positive intergenerational communication
… how women’s experiences with their mothers, grandmothers, and daughters and as mothers, grandmothers, and daughters contribute to their meaning making of communication and connectedness with unrelated women. A purposeful sample of nine women aged 31-69 from a small Midwestern city was …
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The educative value of folk tales among the Zulu
… as well as the relationship that existed between grandmothers and grandchildren. Education is an old phenomenon amongst Zulus. It existed long before the white man came with a formal type of school.
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Resilience processes employed by families from a low socio-economic background
… in isiZulu, with a translator present during the grandmothers’ focus group discussion, because one of the grandmothers spoke Xitsonga. The sessions were audio-recorded and later transcribed. The transcripts were analysed using thematic analysis in order to deduce themes that emerged from the …
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NARRATIVES OF PERSEVERANCE BY LATINA WOMEN PAVING THEIR WAY TO SUCCESS IN SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, ART, AND MATH (STEAM) HIGHER EDUCATION
… The role of the <em>bisabuelas</em> (great-grandmothers), <em>abuelas</em> (grandmothers), and <em>madres</em> (mothers) was particularly important in the participants’ path to success.</p> <p>This study encourages educational professionals and policy makers to create better opportunities …
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Factors influencing the choices of infant feeding of HIV-positive mothers in southern Ghana: the role of counsellors, mothers, families and socio-economic status
… HIV-positive mothers and family members (i.e., grandmothers and fathers) of infant feeding options for HIV-positive mothers in southern Ghana. This entailed individual interviews with 40 HIV-positive mothers with infants, and 6 focus group discussions with HIV-positive mothers, fathers and …
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Three Essays on Labour and Public Economics
… and earnings of mothers and employment of grandmothers. Studying a universal childcare program in Quebec, we find that formal childcare increases the employment rates of mothers as well as that of grandmothers to a lesser extent. Examining heterogeneity of the program’s impact across census …
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