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The Responsibility Continuum: Never Primary, Coresident and Caregiver--Heterogeneity in the African-American Grandmother Experience
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Lee, Rosalyn D.; Ensminger, Margaret E.; Laveist, Thomas A. – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 2005
This article examines diversity among 542 African-American grandmothers from the Woodlawn Longitudinal Study. Women were categorized on the basis of their household composition, degree of care provided to grandchildren, and status of primary caregiver to grandchildren during lifetime. Overall, 67.7% of the sample engaged in parenting and exchange…
Descriptors: Caregivers, Grandchildren, Grandparents, African Americans
Grandparents' Rights. Report from the Committee on Education and Labor. House of Representatives, Ninety-Ninth Congress, First Session. To Accompany H. Con. Res. 67.
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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1985
This document is a report on a resolution recommending that states develop and adopt a Uniform Grandparent's Visitation Act which would allow grandparents to petition state courts for the right to visit their grandchildren after the dissolution of the grandchildren's parents' marriage (by divorce, separation, or death). The resolution calls for…
Descriptors: Divorce, Family Relationship, Grandchildren, Grandparents