Grandparenting Practices Around the World / / ed. by Virpi Timonen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol UP/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• MitwirkendeR: Arpino, Bruno,; Bengtson, Vern L.,; Brown, Judith E.,; Craig, Lyn,; Di Gessa, Giorgio,; Dolbin-MacNab, Megan L.,; Few-Demo, April L.,; Galčanová, Lucie,; Glaser, Karen,; Goh, Esther C.L.,; Hamilton, Myra,; Hoffman, Jaco,; Knodel, John,; Margolis, Rachel,; Ojala, Hanna,; Pietilä, Ilkka,; Price, Debora,; Ribe, Eloi,; Silverstein, Merril,; Teerawichitchainan, Bussarawan,; Timonen, Virpi,; Vidovićová, Lucie,; Vildaite, Dovile,; Wang, Sheng-li,; Zhou, Yanqiu Rachel,
• HerausgeberIn: Timonen, Virpi,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (308 p.) :; 12 Black and White

This exciting collection presents an in-depth, up-to-date analysis of the unprecedented phenomenon of increasing numbers of grandparents worldwide, co-existing and interacting for longer periods of time with their grandchildren. The book contains analyses of topics that have so far received relatively little attention, such as transnational grandparenting and gender differences in grandparenting practices. It is the only collection that brings together theory-driven research on grandparenting from a wide variety of cultural and welfare state contexts - including chapters on Europe, North America, Africa, Asia and Australia - drawing broad lines of debate rather than focusing at a country level. Building on the success of ‘Contemporary grandparenting’, edited by Virpi Timonen and Sarah Arber, this book further deepens our understanding of how social structures continue to shape grandparenting across a wide range of cultural and economic contexts. The book is essential reading and reference for researchers, students and policy-makers who want to understand the growing influence of grandparents in ageing families and societies across the world.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- List of abbreviations -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction: widening the lens on grandparenting -- The demographic and welfare-state contexts of grandparenting -- The demography of grandparenthood in 16 European countries and two North American countries -- Grandparental childcare: a reconceptualisation of family policy regimes -- Grandparenting in contexts of economic and societal development -- Grandparenting in developing South East Asia: comparative perspectives from Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam -- Second-parenthood realities, third-age ideals: (grand)parenthood in the context of poverty and HIV/AIDS -- Transnational grandparenting -- Transnational grandparenting: the intersection of transnationalism and translocality -- Transnational grandmother–grandchild relationships in the context of migration from Lithuania to Ireland -- Gender, intersectionalities and grandparenting -- The composition of grandparent childcare: gendered patterns in cross-national perspective -- Class-based grandfathering practices in Finland -- Grandfamilies in the United States: an intersectional analysis -- Grandparental roles, agency and influence -- How grandparents influence the religiosity of their grandchildren: a mixed-methods study of three-generation families in the United States -- Can Chinese grandparents say no? A comparison of grandmothers in two Asian cities -- “I am not that type of grandmother”: (non)compliance with the grandmother archetype among contemporary Czech grandmothers -- Conclusions: the grandparents’ century? -- Index