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Showing 1 to 20 of 68 for “"grandparent"”.
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Antecedents of the Psychological Adjustment of Children and Grandparent Caregivers in Grandparent-Headed Families
Grandparent-headed families are diverse in nature and represent a rapidly growing family type. While challenges facing grandparent caregivers are well documented, less is known about the well-being of their grandchildren, with many early studies relying on small samples of convenience. This study …
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Kinship Support Group: Addressing Grandparent Caregiver Challenges
<p>Grandparent caregivers to their grandchild(ren) is a growing population that is not completely understood. This study explored the challenges faced by grandparent caregivers to their grandchild(ren) and how being part of a kinship support group can help in addressing the challenges. A …
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Grandparent Support for Families with Non-Biological Adopted Children
… examine the perceived and received support from grandparents to adoptive families and the impact it has on the families' lives. Qualitative methods in the form of semi-structured open-ended interviews were used to conduct 28 interviews with adoptive parents. My findings reveal that maternal …
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Grandparent caregivers: factors contributing to their experience of life satisfaction
Globally, the number of grandparents providing primary, custodial, or co-parenting for biological and legal grandchildren has grown progressively. Often time examination of grandparent caregiving occurs through the lens of burden and deleterious familial, psychological, and medical outcomes. The …
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Grandparent-Grandchild Attachment as a Predictor of Psychological Adjustment among Youth from Divorced Families
Grandparent-Grandchild Attachment as a Predictor of Psychological Adjustment among Youth from Divorced Families
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Uncovering the Process by Which Grandparent Couples in Encore Adulthood Engage in Family Leisure
The majority of grandparents in the United States are married and do not reside with their grandchild(ren) (U.S. Census Bureau, 2014; Wu, 2018). The life stage of encore adulthood between 55 and 75 years old (Moen, 2016) often overlaps with grandparenthood. Time with grandchildren, and more broadly …
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Communication guidelines to support grandparent headed families regarding sexual and reproductive health in Tshwane District
English: ABSTRACT Grandparenting is a new global social phenomenon emerging whereby grandparents take part in caring for their grandchildren. Grandparent headed families occur due to various societal factors, including the death of parents due to accidents, teenage parenting and other limitations …
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Giving Up and Giving In: Young Adolescents' Dilemmas when Caring for a Grandparent with Alzheimer's Disease
… it like for an adolescent to provide care for a grandparent afflicted with Alzheimer's disease? A qualitative, grounded theory study design was utilized. Ten adolescents aged 11–18 were interviewed and asked a series of semi-structured questions regarding caregiving. To be included, respondents …
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The Relationship of Parental Stress and Social Support in Grandparent-headed Families in Rural South Dakota
Grandparents raising their grandchildren is an increasing phenomena and the stresses and lack of social support are taking their toll on these families. This study sought to determine the relationship between parental stress and social support of grandparent-headed households living in rural South …
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PARENTING IN CHINESE IMMIGRANT MOTHERS: THE INFLUENCES OF CHINESE IDENTITY, CULTURAL AND PARENTING COGNITIONS, GRANDPARENT SUPPORT AND CHILD TEMPERAMENT
… of acculturation on the relationship between grandparent support and parenting stress; 4) the moderating role of gender and acculturation on the relationship between child difficult behavior and parenting stress. Data were collected from 256 Chinese immigrant mothers with children under age 5 …
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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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An exploratory investigation of the interactional patterns of grandparents and college-age grandchildren
… 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 reported grandparenting style and specified variables. Verification of the existence of distinct grandparenting …
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Family structure, the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and child outcomes
… families such as single father and grandparent households, are related to a wide of array of child outcomes with a focus on the interplay of parent-child gender. The results from this study show that children in single father families have better health status than children living in …
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A Descriptive Study of the Foster Grandparent Program in Support of the Creation of an Afterschool Program to Address Food Insecurity and Chronic Disease Risk in Older Adults and Children
… diseases and mental health issues affect Foster Grandparents, especially in light of the COVID-19 pandemic’s influence on volunteer activities for older adults. Using Bourdieu’s concept of <em>habitus</em>, this study outlines the structural influences of the Foster Grandparent program on …
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The effects of memory knowledge on attributions of forgetfulness in younger and older adults
… no information about memory and aging), grandparent (received information about grandparent-grandchild relationships), and memory aging (received information about normative age-related changes in memory functioning in later adulthood). One week later, participants read six vignettes …
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Integrating Genomics and Metabolomics to Inform Breeding for Powdery Mildew Resistance in Grapevine
… to trace the inheritance of resistance loci in grandparent-parent-progeny relationships. Both hap+chr2 and hap+chr15 in the resistant F1 progeny were inherited from parent MN1264, that originated from grandparent ‘Seyval blanc’. Additionally, two microsatellites markers (i.e., UDV-015b and …
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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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Three-Generation Family Households and Child Wellbeing
… a three-generation family household, in which a grandparent, parent and child coreside. To date, little research has described the prevalence or correlates of three-generation family households or looked at the association between three-generation family coresidence and child wellbeing during …
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Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: An Investigation of Identified Burdens
<p>Grandparents 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 …
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