Grandparenthood

ISBN-13: 9780415927413 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 272 str.

Ruth K. Westheimer; Steven Kaplan

Opis

Ruth Westheimer, known to millions as Dr. Ruth, has been counselling Americans on how to foster and maintain their most intimate relationships for years. Now she turns her attention to the role of the grandparent in this guide that aims to help men and women of all ages and backgrounds develop a more rewarding bond with their children's children. In this age of non-traditional families, day-care challenges and decreasing sexual stereotypes, the role of the grandparent has never been more critical. Dr. Westheimer shows grandparents how to take advantage of their unique position to help enrich their own lives as well as the lives of their grandchildren's - and not feel overwhelmed in the process. Covering a host of general topics, including how to establish a relationship, managing visits, suggestions for new and unusual activities, and giving wisely, Dr. Westheimer also addresses the increasingly common situations of divorce, non-traditional and multi-cultural families, and what happens when the grandparent becomes the parent. She also pays special tribute to grandfathers, a largely neglected but increasingly important figure in every child's life.

Spis treści

Introduction -- Chapter l: The Grandparent Relationship -- Chapter 2: Common Concerns -- Chapter 3: Grandparenting: A Developing Relationship -- Chapter 4: Created in Our Own Image: Choosing Our Grandparenting Style -- Chapter 5: Vital Roles -- Chapter 6: Distance Is Only Relative, Especially If You're the Relative -- Chapter 7: It Pays to Visit! -- Chapter 8: Giving Wisely -- Chapter 9: Families in Many Shapes and Sizes -- Chapter l 0: Going It Alone: Single-Parent Families -- Chapter l l: Until Divorce Do Us Part -- Chapter l 2: Starting Over: Grandparents as Parents -- Chapter l 3: Like a Passing Shadow -- Afterword -- Resources -- Index.

O autorze

Ruth K. Westheimer, world-renowned psychosexual therapist, is the author of numerous books, including Dr. Ruth's Pregnancy Guide for Couples(Routledge, 1999), Dr. Ruth Talks about Grandparents, and a documentary that she produced and narrated, No Missing Links, which examines how grandparents have transmitted traditional values from generation to generation. Steven Kaplan is Associate Professor of Comparative Religion and African Studies at the Hebrew University. His previous books include a co-authored work with Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Surviving Salvation: The Ethiopian Jewish Family in Transition ( 1992 ), and an edited collection, Indigenous Responses to Western Christianity ( 1995).