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Grandparents raising grandchildren
— emerging program and policy issues for the 21st century | | Author(s) | Carrie Jefferson Smith, Ana Beltran, Donna M Butts |
| Journal title | Journal of Gerontological Social Work, vol 35, no 1, 2001 |
| Pages | pp 33-46 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Grandparents as carers ; Grandchildren ; Social policy ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Current estimates (US Bureau of Census, 1998) indicate that some 2.5 million American households are headed by grandparents. This article explores the issue of grandparents raising their grandchildren. It seeks, first, to explain why this issue is capturing the attention of some advocates, researchers and policy-makers. Second, it identifies the challenges for families headed by a grandparent. Lastly, it explores public policies and programmes emerging from a developing intergenerational agenda directed at assisting such families. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010926208 A |
| Classmark | P6:SW: SW5: TM2: 7T |
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