Contemporary grandparenting : changing family relationships in global contexts / / edited by Sara Arber and Virpi Timonen [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910815267303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Bristol : , : Policy, , 2012
• ISBN: 1-4473-0762-3; 1-280-67695-7; 9786613653888; 1-84742-969-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 270 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 306.8745
• Soggetti: Grandparenting - Social aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Sep 2022).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 'Assumed' consensual solidarity and normative solidarity between the (prospective) parental generation and grandparent generationNegotiating solidarity: grandparents as moral guardians; Existence of functional solidarity and patterns of associational solidarity; Ambivalence; Discussion and conclusion; Part Two: Grandparent identities and agency; 7. Being there yet not interfering: the paradoxes of grandparenting; Introduction; Norms, paradoxes and ambivalence; The study; 'Not interfering' and the paradox of parenting; 'Being there' and the paradox of self-determination; Parents as gatekeepers.; 5. Solidarity, ambivalence and multigenerational co-residence in Hong KongIntroduction; Theoretical approaches to intergenerational relationships; Living in Hong Kong; Methods; Multigenerational co-residence as an act of filial piety; Centrality of functional solidarity?; Normative solidarity in connection with ambivalence; Discussion and conclusion; 6. Grandparenting in the context of care for grandchildren by foreign domestic workers; Introduction; Study context: contemporary Singapore (since 2000); Methods and data collection.; Methods and dataDepression among Chinese and US custodial grandparents; Resources of grandparents in rural China; Depressive ; symptoms among grandparents in rural China; Discussion and conclusion; 4. Grandmothers juggling work and grandchildren in the United States; Introduction; Decrease in support from the US welfare state and employers; Increase in the need for 'granny care'; Data and methodology; Grandmothers juggling paid work and care work; Using paid work to set boundaries; Using work to finance grandchild care; Responsibilities for ageing parents; Discussion and conclusion.; The focus of the chapterThe demography of grandparenthood; Is there a grandparenthood role? Surprising Norwegian findings; Comparative data on role expectations and role enactment in European societies; Grandparental roles in the context of wider family responsibilities; The substitution versus complementarity debate revisited; Grandparents as 'mother savers' or 'family savers'; Conclusion; 3. The wellbeing of grandparents caring for grandchildren in China and the United States; Introduction; Custodial grandparenting in rural China; Comparing custodial grandparenting in the US and China.; Contemporary grandparenting; Contents; List of tables and figures; Tables; Figures; Notes on contributors; 1. A new look at grandparenting; Demographics of grandparenting; Earlier frameworks for research on grandparenthood; Gender, generation and grandparenting; Influences of societal and cultural contexts on grandparenting; Grandparenting norms, identities and agency; Conclusion; Part One: Grandparents responding to economic and family transformations; 2. Transformations in the role of grandparents across welfare states; Introduction: the many images of modern grandparenthood.
• Sommario/riassunto: This is the first book to take a sociological approach to grandparenting across diverse country contexts and combines new theorising with up-to-date empirical findings to document the changing nature of grandparenting across global contexts.