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Grandparenthood
— its meaning and its contribution to older people's lives | | Author(s) | Lynda Clarke, Ceridwen Roberts |
| Corporate Author | Growing Older (GO) Programme, Economic & Social Research Council - ESRC |
| Journal title | GO Findings: 22 - Research Findings from the Growing Older Programme, October 2003 |
| Publisher | ESRC, Sheffield, October 2003 |
| Pages | 4 pp |
| Source | ESRC Growing Older Programme, Department of Sociological Studies, Elmfield, Northumberland Road, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TU. www.shef.ac.uk/uni/projects/gop/index.htm |
| Keywords | Grandparents ; Grandchildren ; Family relationships ; Social roles ; Quality of life ; Research Reviews. |
| Annotation | As people live longer, the grandparent/grandchild relationship is becoming more prevalent, but other societal changes are affecting how this family relationship operates. Older people - especially women - may be working or enjoying more active leisure interests, while more families with children have both parents working and/or experience more family breakdown and lone parenthood. All this has repercussions for intergenerational family relationships. In the absence of accurate data on this topic, public policy has tended to ignore the diversity of grandparents' circumstances, roles and obligations. Therefore, a key objective of this project was to examine the diversity among grandparents and the contribution that grandparenthood makes to older people's quality of life (QoL). (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040209207 A |
| Classmark | SW: SW5: DS:SJ: TM5: F:59: 3A:6KC |
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