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Author Smith-Ruiz, Dorothy

Title Amazing grace : African American grandmothers as caregivers and conveyors of traditional values / Dorothy Smith Ruiz ; foreword by Bert Hayslip
Published Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 134 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction -- Slavery, family, and religion : the traditional roles of older African American women in the antebellum south during the nineteenth cerntury -- Related research : grandparent caregiving -- Methodology : the custodial African American grandmother study -- Social and demographic characteristics -- Factors influencing life satisfaction among -- Social facrors, health status, and depression -- Voices of custodial grandmothers : dominant themes
Summary Intergenerational African families in which the grandmother is the primary caregiver of grandchildren and great-grandchildren are increasing rapidly in American society. Over the past decade, researchers and policy makers have shown considerable concern over the increases in grandparent-maintained households. This concern has stimulated a proliferation of research on grandparent caregiving on a wide range of issues. Among these are the impact of multiple roles on health, reasons for the rapid increase, problems and needs, social structure and extended family relationships, social support, role
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-126) and index
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Subject Grandparents as parents -- United States
African American grandmothers.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Parenting -- Grandparenting.
African American grandmothers
Grandparents as parents
United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 031305200X
9780313052002
9780275980771
0275980774