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African American grandparents raising grandchildren
— a national study using the Census 2000 American Community Survey | | Author(s) | Meredith Minkler, Esme Fuller-Thomson |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 60B, no 2, March 2005 |
| Pages | pp S82-S92 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Black African ; Family care ; Grandchildren ; Social surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The Census 2000 American Community Survey is a nationally representative survey of 890,000 households, from which the present study is an analysis based on comparison of 2,362 African American grandparent caregivers aged 45+ with 40,148 non-caregiving peers. Gender specific analyses were also conducted. More than 500,000 African Americans aged 45+ were estimated to be raising grandchildren in 2000. They were disproportionately female, younger, and less educated than non-caregivers, and more likely to be living in poverty and receiving public assistance. Grandmother caregivers had significantly higher rates of functional limitations and poverty than other grandfather caregivers or other African American women aged 45+. Study subjects represent a highly vulnerable population economically. The findings that four-fifths of African American grandmother caregivers below the poverty line were not receiving public assistance underscores the need for improving programme outreach and substance to better serve the population. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-050505217 A |
| Classmark | TKF: P6:SJ: SW5: 3F: 7T |
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