05537oam 22007814a 450 991046245520332120211028114836.01-4473-0762-31-280-67695-797866136538881-84742-969-6(CKB)2670000000204346(EBL)922865(OCoLC)795695154(SSID)ssj0000677118(PQKBManifestationID)11365472(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000677118(PQKBWorkID)10693889(PQKB)10096326(StDuBDS)EDZ0000107512(MiAaPQ)EBC922865(Au-PeEL)EBL922865(CaPaEBR)ebr10567604(CaONFJC)MIL365388(OCoLC)795159224(MdBmJHUP)musev2_80228(EXLCZ)99267000000020434620120207d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrContemporary GrandparentingChanging Family Relationships in Global Contexts /edited by Sara Arber and Virpi TimonenChicago :Policy,2012.©2012.1 online resource (286 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-84742-967-X 1-84742-968-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.'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.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.Grandparentingfast(OCoLC)fst00946366Grandparent and childfast(OCoLC)fst00946360SOCIAL SCIENCESociologyMarriage & FamilybisacshFAMILY & RELATIONSHIPSParentingGrandparentingbisacshGrandparentingSocial aspectsElectronic books. Grandparenting.Grandparent and child.SOCIAL SCIENCESociologyMarriage & Family.FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPSParentingGrandparenting.GrandparentingSocial aspects.306.874/5306.8745Timonen Virpi282146Arber Sara1949-914718MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910462455203321Contemporary grandparenting2051637UNINA