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Grandma's hands
— black grandmothers speak about their experiences rearing grandchildren on TANF | | Author(s) | Tammy L Henderson, Jennifer L Cook |
| Journal title | International Journal of Aging and Human Development, vol 61, no 1, 2005 |
| Pages | pp 1-19 |
| Source | http://baywood.com |
| Keywords | Black people ; Grandmothers ; Poverty ; Grandparents as carers ; Grandchildren ; Social security benefits ; Social surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Among other things, TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) provides lump-sum federal block grants to US states to operate their own welfare and work programmes. In this article, the authors use symbolic interaction theory to understand the views and meanings attached to welfare, poverty and poor families, as well as to decipher grandmothers' policy recommendations. The culturally variant perspective provided a conceptual lens that placed grandmothers' adaptive behaviours in an historical, socio-political context. The authors used Grounded Theory methods to analyse 20 personal interviews from a larger multiple case study examining the influence of TANF on grandparent-led families in southwest Virginia. Grandparents' views create a continuum of beliefs toward poverty, TANF and personal responsibility with themes of individualistic, structural and fatalistic views. They made distinct policy recommendations to remove the penalties attached to kinship care, which continues to be an adaptive family feature. However, black grandmothers maintain some of the same societal and familial values as society generally. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-050916201 A |
| Classmark | TKE: SW2: W6: P6:SW: SW5: JH: 3F: 7T |
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