Grandparenting Practices Around the World

ISBN-13: 9781447340645 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 308 str.

Virpi Timonen

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Introduction: Widening the lens on grandparenting ~ By Virpi Timonen; Section 1: The demographic and welfare state contexts of grandparenting; The demography of grandparenthood in Europe and North America ~ by Rachel Margolis and Bruno Arpino; Grandparental childcare: A re-conceptualisation of family policy regimes ~ by Debora Price, Eloi Ribe, Giorgio Di Gessa and Karen Glaser; Section 2: Grandparenting in contexts of economic and societal development; Grandparenting in developing Southeast Asia: Comparative perspectives from Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam ~ by John Knodel and Bussarawan Teerawichitchainan; Second parenthood realities, Third Age ideals: (grand)parenthood in the context of poverty and HIV/AIDS ~ by Jaco Hoffman; Section 3: Transnational grandparenting; Transnational grandparenting: The intersection of transnationalism and translocality ~ Yanqiu Rachel Zhou; Transnational grandmother-grandchild relationships in the context of migration from Lithuania to Ireland ~ by Dovile Vildaite; Section 4: Gender, intersectionalities and grandparenting The composition of grandparent childcare: Gendered patterns in cross-national perspective ~ by Lyn Craig, Myra Hamilton and Judith E. Brown; Class-based grandfathering practices in Finland ~ by Hanna Ojala and Ilkka Pietila; Grandfamilies in the United States: An intersectional analysis by Megan Dolbin-MacNab and April Few Demo; Section 5: 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 ~ by Vern Bengtson and Merril Silverstein; Can Chinese grandparents say no? A comparison of grandmothers in two Asian cities ~ by Esther C. L. Goh and Shengli Wang; “I am not that type of a grandparent”: (non-) compliance with the grandmother archetype among contemporary Czech grandparents ~ Lucie Galčanová and Lucie Vidovićová; Conclusions ~ by Virpi Timonen.