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Raising grandchildren
— the experiences of black and white grandmothers | | Author(s) | Rachel Pruchno |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 39, no 2, April 1999 |
| Pages | pp 209-221 |
| Keywords | Grandparents as carers ; Grandmothers ; Grandchildren ; Black people ; White people ; Social characteristics [elderly] ; Social surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The experiences of 398 white and 319 black grandmothers raising their grandchildren in the absence of the middle generation are contrasted. Similarities include age, education, familial relationship to the grandchild, age of the grandchild being raised, reasons why grandmothers are raising their grandchildren, behaviours characteristic of the grandchildren, and impacts on the grandmother's work life. Differences include marital status, work status, and income. Black grandmothers are more likely than their white counterparts to have peers who also live with their grandchildren. Black grandmothers are also more likely to come from families in which multiple generations lived together and to be receiving support from formal sources. White grandmothers experienced more burden from their caregiving role than did black grandmothers. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990723212 A |
| Classmark | P6:SW: SW2: SW5: TKE: TKA: F: 3F: 7T |
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