Although many relatives use video chat to keep in touch with toddlers, key features of adult-toddler interaction like joint visual attention (JVA) may be compromised in this context. In this study, 25 families with a child between 6 and 24 months were observed using video chat at home with geographically separated grandparents. We define two types…

Associations between grandparental investment and child outcomes were investigated using three waves of a longitudinal British Millennium Cohort Study that included children between the ages of 9 months and 5 years (n = 24,614 person-observations from 13,744 children). Grandparental investment was measured by parent--grandparent contact frequency…

This study explored family structures in which grandmothers and grandchildren share residences; the degree to which grandmothers participated in parenting activities; and variability in grandmothers' parenting involvement resulting from their employment status and the family structure. (PCB)

Black grandmothers, mothers, and children between the ages of 8 and 14 were interviewed using Bronfenbrenner's Parental Behavior Scale. The 60 participating families represented two levels of family structure, single-parent or dual-parent, and two levels of grandmother's domicile, living with the family or in the local community. (Author/RH)

The stability of adult attachment and transmission of attachment across 3 generations were examined in a longitudinal study of 96 infants, their mothers, and maternal grandmothers. The study found that mothers' Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) classifications were stable over 12 months in 90% of mothers and 73% of grandmothers, using the AAI's…

Sixty-four families with four kinds of family structure were interviewed in an effort to examine differences and similarities among and within Black families. Results suggest that different Black family structures are associated with different family climates. (PCB)

Examined the association of the mother-grandmother relationship with the parenting of preschoolers in a sample of 96 African-American multigenerational families. Found that the observed quality of the mother-grandmother relationship, as assessed by the Scale of Intergenerational Relationship Quality, was systematically related to parenting of the…

Compared mothers' ratings of childhood problems of 4- to 9-year-old Sudanese children. Compared to children in extended families, children in nuclear families had more conduct, emotional, and sleep problems; exhibited poorer self-care and greater overdependence; and were less likely to be breastfed and have grandmothers involved in their care. (BC)

Children, mothers, and mothers' parents completed questionnaires about the children's involvement with their grandparents. Grandparents were more involved with grandchildren from single-parent than from two-parent families. As grandchildren's pubertal development progressed, grandparents became more involved with grandsons, and grandfathers became…

Examined the parenting practices in 99 young, low-income, African American multigenerational families through home-based observations of grandmothers, young mothers, and the mothers' 3-year-old children. Residence with grandmothers was found to have negative consequences on the quality of both mothers' and grandmothers' parenting. (MDM)