Grandparenting Practices Around the World /

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

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 relative...

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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
Online Access:
Physical Description:1 online resource (308 p.) :; 12 Black and White
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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

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