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American grandparents providing extensive child care to their grandchildren — prevalence and profile
Author(s)	Esme Fuller-Thomson, Meredith Minkler
Journal title	The Gerontologist, vol 41, no 2, April 2001
Pages	pp 201-209
Keywords	Grandparents as carers ; Grandchildren ; Social characteristics [elderly] ; Social surveys ; United States of America.
Annotation	Subjects in this study are those grandparents who provide 30+ hours per week or 90+ nights per year of child care, yet are not a grandchild's primary caregiver. In secondary analysis of the 3,260 grandparent respondents in the 1992-94 US National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH), extensively caregiving grandparents were compared with custodial grandparents, non-caregivers, occasional caregivers and intermediate caregivers using chi-square tests, one-way analysis of variance tests, and logistic regression analyses. Close to 7% of all grandparents provided extensive caregiving, as did 14.9% of those who had provided any grandchild care in the last month. Extensive caregivers most closely resembled custodial caregivers and had least in common with those grandparents who never provided child care. (KJ/RH).
Accession Number	CPA-010622214 A
Classmark	P6:SW: SW5: F: 3F: 7T
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