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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Climate change is reshaping everyday life in Ghana through coastal erosion, flooding, erratic rainfall, water scarcity, extreme heat, and agricultural insecurity. This study examines how these changes produce stress, trauma, and gendered resilience among women in Salakope and Choggu Yapalsi, two climate‐vulnerable communities in coastal and ...
Jacob Kwakye
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Grandparental Child Care in Europe: Evidence for Preferential Investment in More Certain Kin
Evolutionary Psychology, 2011 Theories of kin selection and parental investment predict stronger investment in children and grandchildren by women and maternal kin. Due to paternity uncertainty, parental and grandparental investments along paternal lineages are based on less certain ...
Mirkka Danielsbacka +3 more
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Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study leveraged system dynamics approaches to improve community‐based oral healthcare delivery via the ElderSmile program. Insights and inferences from focus groups and key informant interviews with older adults and their service providers, respectively, were integral to understanding feedback mechanisms articulated in participatory ...
Sara S. Metcalf +2 more
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Asian/Pacific Island Nursing Journal, 2017 Native Hawaiian custodial grandparents have a distinctive set of strengths and challenges that may lead them to benefit from a structured self-care program.
Loriena Yancura +2 more
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Crisis, temporality and governmental policy agendas: The cases of Finland and Sweden
Scandinavian Political Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Crises transform the temporal orientation of political decision‐making. They demand immediate and decisive action and thus convert time into a means of political control. In these circumstances, assessing the long‐term consequences of proposed policies with respect to welfare, sustainability or justice also becomes demanding.
Henri Vogt, Mikko Värttö
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Grandparents Caring for Their Grandchildren: Findings from the 2004 Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe [PDF]
Introducing findings from the 2004 Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), this research complements the large number of recent U.S. studies on the role of grandparents in caring for their grandchildren.
Karsten Hank, Isabella Buber
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The disinheritance of a firstborn son accustomed to the privileges of exclusion has for centuries been a dramatic event for families, especially if the decision was taken by a woman, the son's own mother. Very few dared to do so, because it symbolised a break with the notion of virtuous, compassionate motherhood; it represented a failure to be
Mariela Fargas Peñarrocha
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Economic Impossibilities for our Grandchildren? [PDF]
Journal of the British Academy, 2015 Abstract: The paper looks at the development of the secular stagnation thesis, in the context of the economic history of the time. It explores some 19th century antecedents of the thesis, before turning to its interwar development. Not only Alvin Hansen, but Keynes and Hicks were involved in the conversations that led to Hansen's eventual statement of ...
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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Journal of Family Research, 2020 Grandparents can play a supportive role when parents are divorced, but we know little about how important they actually are for the well-being of grandchildren. Existing studies do not distinguish between grandparental lineages.
Maaike Jappens, Jan van Bavel
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