ISBN:
9781137563378
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (338 p)
Series Statement:
Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
Parallel Title:
Print version Buchanan, Ann Grandfathers : Global Perspectives
DDC:
306.8745
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Dedication -- Prologue -- An Unusual Grandfather -- What One Single-Parent Indian Man Achieved -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Part I: Overview -- 1: Introduction -- Making Grandfathers Visible -- Global Families -- Demographic Trends Increase Grandfather Availability -- Divorces, Remarriages and New Family Constellations Affect Grandparenting -- Importance of Knowledge About Grandfathers' Involvement for Social Policy -- Legal Systems -- Key Questions -- Organization of the Book -- References
Abstract:
2: A New Niche? The Theory of Grandfather Involvement -- Introduction -- Why Do Grandfathers Care? -- The Evolutionary Perspective -- The Economic Perspective -- The Sociological Perspective -- Explaining the Same Robust Grandparental Investment Pattern from Different Perspectives -- Complementary, Not Competing, Approaches -- Family Size, Birth Order and Availability of Other Kin Influence Grandfathering -- Do Modern Grandfathers Fill a Novel Niche? -- Grandfather Niche: Single-Teenage-Mother Families -- Step-Grandfather Niche: Increasing Prevalence
Abstract:
Summary of Grandfather Effects in Industrialized Societies -- References -- Part II: Grandfathers in Their Global Context -- 3: The Social Construction of Grandfatherhood Across Time in England and the United States -- Introduction -- Paternal Authority: Judeo-Christian Legacy -- The Medieval Family -- The Early American Settlers -- The Slave Family in America -- The Impact of Industrialization: Older Men as a Burden -- The Victorian Patriarch -- Older Men in the United States in the Nineteenth to Twentieth Centuries -- The Coming of Welfare States
Abstract:
The Twenty-First Century: New Grandfathers in Multicultural Societies -- Grandfathers as Companions -- Conclusion -- References -- 4: Out of the Shadows: Are Grandfathers Defining Their Own Roles in the Modern Family in Denmark? -- Introduction -- Understanding the Dynamics of the Role of Grandfathers in Modern Families -- Methodology and Danish Grandfathers -- Grandfathers and Grandchildren-Relationships and Roles -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- 5: Grandfathers: The Parents' Perspective in the United Kingdom -- Introduction -- Netmums -- Difficult Family Relationships
Abstract:
Difficulties Following Grandparent Separation/Divorce -- Parents as Gatekeepers -- Grandmothers and Grandfathers as Grandchild Carers -- Grandparents' Care -- Overnight Stays -- Should Grandparents Be Paid to Look After Their Grandchildren? -- Maintaining Family History -- Caring for Grandfathers, Sickness, and Managing Death -- The Stress of Grandparent Illness -- Should Children Go to Funerals? -- Money, Wills, and Inheritance -- Concerns About Abuse -- Joy and Sadness -- Conclusion -- References -- 6: Maori Grandfathers in Aotearoa (New Zealand) -- Introduction -- Change and Diversity
Abstract:
Demographic Trends and Grandparenthood
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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