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| Grandparents and other relatives as parents | | Author(s) | Cathy J Tompkins, Sacramento Pinazo-Hernandis, Melinda Perez-Porter |
| Journal title | Journal of Intergenerational Relationships, vol 7, no 2-3, 2009 |
| Publisher | Routledge, 2009 |
| Pages | pp 137-348 (whole issue) |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Grandparents as carers ; Grandchildren ; Projects ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | These 22 papers represent a partnership between members of the Journal of Intergenerational Relationships editorial board and the staff of the US Relatives as Parents Program (RAPP), a social service programme supported by the Brookdale Foundation Group. The scholarly papers and in-the-field articles address multiple issues, concerns and outcomes related to families in which grandparents or other relatives act as the parents of children. Numbers of these households have been growing steadily since the early 1970s in the United States, and an even larger increase has been experienced in the number of children reared by their grandparents throughout the 1990s. Generations United (2003) estimated that 5 to 6 million children were living in grandparent-headed households in the United States. Contributors to this issue of the Journal of Intergenerational Relationships cite the scientific literature that identifies many issues, including teenage pregnancy, parents' incarceration, AIDS, substance abuse, child abuse, abandonment and/or neglect, death or mental illness of the parents as the main causes of grandparent caregiving. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-101115209 A |
| Classmark | P6:SW: SW5: 3E: 7T |
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