The Grandparents’ Influence: Parenting Styles and Social Competence among Children of Joint Families

Akhtar, Parveen; Malik, Jamil A.; Begeer, Sander

doi:10.1007/s10826-016-0576-5

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“…Grandmothers believed their strong bond and emotional closeness with their grandchild improved the grandchild's emotional well-being. Strong bonds have been shown to have a protective factor and a positive influence on grandchildren's social-emotional development and can help families cope with a child's developmental challenges (Akhtar et al, 2017;Lin et al, 2016). These bonds could be strengthened by helping grandmothers and parents understand the caregiving needs of grandchildren with disabilities as they mature by providing them with opportunities to attend diagnostic and treatment meetings for children with disabilities and developmental delays (A. .…”

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Shame, Suffering, and Believing in the Family: The Experiences of Grandmothers of a Grandchild With a Developmental Delay or Disability in the Context of Chinese Culture

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Grandparents are primary resources of caregiving support for parents worldwide, regardless of the cultural background. In Chinese societies, grandmothers often fill the role of supportive caregiver. However, a knowledge gap in the literature exists about how Chinese culture influences caregiving for grandmothers of grandchildren with a disability, particularly in Taiwan. This phenomenological study explored the lived experience of grandmothers caring for a grandchild with a developmental delay or disability in the context of Chinese culture. Twenty-five grandmothers were interviewed. When grandmothers learned of their grandchild’s disability, they experienced suffering, which was compounded by the stigma attached to persons with a disability in Chinese cultures, and they also experienced shame and fear of social rejection. Grandmothers’ belief in the importance of family gave meaning to their suffering and prompted them to find new ways to deal with everyday difficulties. These findings can guide nurses and health care professionals responsible for supporting grandmothers caring for a child with a disability in the context of Chinese culture.

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Shame, Suffering, and Believing in the Family: The Experiences of Grandmothers of a Grandchild With a Developmental Delay or Disability in the Context of Chinese Culture

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“…Chen (2016) suggests that the benefits from the co-residence of grandparents in multigenerational families extend far beyond the "normal" grandparent relationship. For example, Akhtar et al (2017) found that grandparents are an essential part of multigenerational families through their shared role in the everyday socialization of youth. They are important sources of information, affection, and emotional support for their grandchildren.…”

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“…They are important sources of information, affection, and emotional support for their grandchildren. Emotional closeness of grandparents is associated with increases in social skill development (Akhtar et al 2017) and children's educational achievement (Chen 2016). This is especially important for families in rural areas in many countries (Barnett et al 2016;Ontai et al 2018) or immigrant families (Guo et al 2015) where there is a higher reliance on each other for support and childcare.…”

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Multigenerational Families

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2019

Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging

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Multigenerational families are defined in a number of ways. The US Census Bureau (2012) defines multigenerational families as families that consist of more than two generations living in the same residence. This includes one-parent multigenerational families, which is usually a mother and grandmother raising a child together, and two-parent multigenerational families where a grandparent is the recipient of care or is assisting with the care of others (Barnett et al. 2016). In some Asian cultures, the two-parent multigenerational family is sometimes referred to as joint households or undivided households. Researchers may use a different definition that focuses on a grandparent living with at least one other generation as a multigenerational family, which would include grandparents raising grandchildren. These families are also considered skipped-generation families (Mills et al. 2005) or grandfamilies (Barnett et al. 2016). The United Nations uses the terms intergenerational and multigenerational interchangeably (Brownell and Resnick 2005). However, there is some debate in the literature about the meanings of these two terms. Davis (2007) argues that intergenerational and multigenerational are synonymous, while Villar (2007) identifies some nuances between the terms. Villar (2007) suggests that intergenerational refers to the involvement of two or more generations in activities that can increase their awareness of different generational perspectives. Intergenerational is often used in the context of programs and initiatives. According to Villar (2007), multigenerational denotes shared activities or characteristics among generations and is associated with demographics (i.e., multigenerational families or multigenerational households) and institutions open to multiple generations. Overview Multigenerational families are the norm in many cultures especially in Asian, African, and Southern and Eastern European countries, while this has not been the case in the USA (Easthope et al. 2015). Multigenerational families were on the decline in the USA with the lowest rates recorded in 1980 (Cohn and Passel 2018). There was a

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“…Differential benefits of non-centre care are also uncertain. Non-centre care by grandparents can buffer against disadvantage [17-19], and can be especially beneficial where there is only one resident parent [20], but has also been shown to exacerbate socioeconomic inequalities in cognitive development [14].…”

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Pre-school childcare and inequalities in child development

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Parkes

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Centre-based childcare may benefit pre-school children and alleviate inequalities in early childhood development, but evidence on socio-emotional and physical health outcomes is limited. Data were from the UK Millennium Cohort Study (n=14,376). Inverse-probability weighting was used to estimate confounder-adjusted population-average effects of centre and non-centre-based childcare (compared to parental care only) between ages 26-31 months on (age 3): internalising and externalising symptoms, pro-social behaviour, independence, emotional dysregulation, vocabulary, school readiness, and body mass index. To assess impacts on inequalities, controlled direct effects of low parental education and lone parenthood on all outcomes were estimated under two hypothetical scenarios: 1) universal take-up of centre-based childcare; and 2) parental care only. On average, non-centre based childcare improved vocabulary and centre-based care improved school readiness, with little evidence of other benefits. However, socio-economic inequalities were observed for all outcomes and were attenuated in scenario 1 (universal take-up). For example, inequalities in externalising symptoms (according to low parental education) were reduced from a confounder-adjusted standard deviation difference of 7.8 (95% confidence intervals: 6.7, 8.8), to 1.7 (0.6, 2.7). Inequalities by parental education in scenario 2 (parental care only) were wider than in scenario 1 for externalising symptoms (at 3.4 (2.4, 4.4)), and for emotional dysregulation and school readiness. Inequalities by lone parenthood, which were smaller, fell in scenario 1, and fell further in scenario 2. Universal access to centre-based pre-school care may alleviate inequalities, while restricted access (e.g. during lockdown for a pandemic such as Covid-19) may widen some inequalities in socioemotional and cognitive development.

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The Grandparents’ Influence: Parenting Styles and Social Competence among Children of Joint Families

Cited by 26 publications

References 31 publications

Shame, Suffering, and Believing in the Family: The Experiences of Grandmothers of a Grandchild With a Developmental Delay or Disability in the Context of Chinese Culture

Shame, Suffering, and Believing in the Family: The Experiences of Grandmothers of a Grandchild With a Developmental Delay or Disability in the Context of Chinese Culture

Multigenerational Families

Pre-school childcare and inequalities in child development

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