Special Issue: Volume 7, Issue 2-3, 2009
Issue Editors: Catherine J. Tompkins, George Mason University, USA
Sacramento Pinazo-Hernandis, University of Valencia, Spain
Melinda Perez-Porter, The Brookdale Foundation, New York, USA
Rolanda T. Pyle, The Brookdale Foundation, New York, USA
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Journal of Intergenerational Relationships
Special Double Issue: Volume 7, Issue 2-3, 2009Grandparents and Other Relatives as Parents
The number of grandparent-headed households has been growing steadily since the early seventies, and an even larger increase has been experienced by the number of children reared by their grandparents throughout the nineties. Consequently, over the past decade, there has been a growing body of research devoted to the study of grandparents raising grandchildren in the world.
In this special double issue of the Journal of Intergenerational Relationships, Grandparents and Other Relatives as Parents, authors cite the scientific literature that identifies teen pregnancy, parents' incarceration, AIDS, substance abuse, child abuse, abandonment and/or neglect, and death or mental illness of the parents as the main causes of grandparent caregiving.
With the intention of further developing this significant body of research, this special issue provides a wide panorama of the most relevant issues in the field of custodial grandparenting.
In this special double issue of the Journal of Intergenerational Relationships, Grandparents and Other Relatives as Parents, authors cite the scientific literature that identifies teen pregnancy, parents' incarceration, AIDS, substance abuse, child abuse, abandonment and/or neglect, and death or mental illness of the parents as the main causes of grandparent caregiving.
With the intention of further developing this significant body of research, this special issue provides a wide panorama of the most relevant issues in the field of custodial grandparenting.
SPECIAL ISSUE CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- Custodial Grandparents: The State of the Art and the Many Faces of this Contribution, Sacramento Pinazo-Hernandis; Catherine J. Tompkins
- Family Coping and Adaptation Among Grandparents Rearing Grandchildren, Sandra J. Bailey, Bethany L. Letiecq, and Fonda Porterfield
- Bridging the Generations: A Retrospective Examination of Adults' Relationships with Their Kinship Caregivers, Megan L. Dolbin-macnab, Brandon E. Rodgers, and Ryan M. Traylor
- Custodial Grandparents: Policies Affecting Care, Carole Cox
- Factors Associated with the Psychological Health of Grandparents as Primary Caregivers: An Analysis of Gender Differences, Hwa-Ok Hannah Park
- Perceptions of Custodial Grandparents Among Young Adults, Bert Hayslip JR., Rebecca J. Glover, Bric E. Harris, Paula B. Miltenberger, Annabel Baird, and Patricia L. Kaminski
- Kinship Care in Rural Georgia Communities: Responding to Needs and Challenges of Grandparent Caregivers, Sharon King, Nancy P. Krop, Molly Perkins, Leslie Sessley, Cliff Burt, and Michael Lepore
- Grandparent Caregivers' Health and Management of Prescription Medication, Stacey R. Kolomer
- When Grandparents Take Custody-Changing Intergenerational Relationships: The New Zealand Experience, Jill Worrall
- Grandparent Caregiving in Caribbean Latino Families: Correlates of Children's Departure from Care, Denise Burnette
- Substance Abuse Exposure Among Youth Being Raised by Grandparents in Rural Communities: Findings from a Three-Year Evaluation, Jennifer Crittenden, Melissa Adle, Lenard W. Kaye, and Barbara Kates
- Florida Kinship Center, Kerry A. Littlewood and Anne L. Strozier
- Catholic Charities and Community Services of the Archdiocese of Denver Kinship Care Program, Jeannie Berzinskas and Tray Dubray
- Trading Sorrows for Hope: Forsyth County Department of Social Services Relatives as Parents Program, Krista Kindley
- Relatives as Parents Program of the Pinebelt Association for Families, Sylvia Forster
- Generations United for Grandfamilies, Donna M. Butts
- The Impact of a ''Tiny'' Brookdale Grant: Illinois Department on Aging, Grandparents, and Other Relatives Raising Children Program, Barbara Schwartz
- The Kinship Family Portraits Project, Brenda Reynolds and Denyse Variano
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