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Continuity and Change in the American Family engages students with issues they see every day in the news, providing them with a comprehensive description of the social demography of the American family. Understanding ever-changing family systems and patterns requires taking the pulse of contemporary family life from time to time. This book paints a portrait of family continuity and change in the later half of the 20th century, with a focus on data from the 1970’s to present. The authors explore such topics as the growth in cohabitation, changes in childbearing, and how these trends affect family life. Other topics include the changing lives of single mothers, fathers, and grandparents and increasing economic disparities among families; child care and child well-being; and combining paid work and family. The authors are talented writers who bring considerable professional and scholarly background to bear in illuminating this topic in a thoughtful yet lively presentation.
Grandparenting
Grandparenting
The most recent estimates indicate that there are 53 million grandparents in the United States and that about 70 percent of adults over age 50 are grandparents (Watson and Koblinsky 1997). Although the majority of Americans will experience the role of grandparent as they age, just how they carry out this role is likely to vary greatly. Grandparent-grandchild relations are embedded in societal, environmental, cultural, familial, and individual contexts that are interdependent and change over time (King, Russell, and Elder 1998). Because of differences in these contexts, grandparenting styles are diverse; they can range from extremely involved, as in the case of a grandparent raising a grandchild without the help of the child's parents, to very remote, as in the case of grandparents who ...
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