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Grandparents raising grandchildren a report to the Ohio General Assembly on the problems and concerns of Ohioans raising their children's children

open access: yes, 1999
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Ohio Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Task Force.
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The Edification of Manuela Xiqués: Slavery, Finance, Biography, and the Construction of Modern Barcelona

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
wiley   +1 more source

On the Demand for Grandchildren: Tied Transfers and the Demonstration Effect [PDF]

open access: yes
Most private giving between living generations takes the form of "tied" transfers, such as help with housing downpayments. We argue that parents provide help with downpayments in order to encourage the production of grandchildren, and that such a ...
Stark, Oded, Cox, Donald
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Grandparents-as-parents: social change and its impact on grandparents who are raising their grandchildren

open access: yes, 2006
During the last quarter of a century there has been a worldwide dramatic increase in the number of grandparents who are raising their grandchildren because of their own adult children’s inability to take on the parenting role.
Backhouse, Jan
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The Impact of Grandparents-Grandchildren Relationships on Creativity and Emotional Intelligence

open access: yesJournal of Educational Studies, 2019
The present research aims to see to what extent the impact of grandparents on grandchildren influences their creativity. Moreover, we try to see if there are major differences between the permanent or sporadic relationships between grandparents and ...
Ada Tamara Bunduc (Checheriță)
doaj  

Gender, Families, and Wealth Accumulation Among the One‐Child Generation

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Prior literature on gender and wealth accumulation largely examines the role of families in reproducing inequalities. However, less attention has been paid to families without sons, a significant demographic, particularly within China's one‐child generation, that challenges conventional understandings of familial wealth dynamics.
Ye Liu
wiley   +1 more source

The Economic Problem of Happiness. Keynes on Happiness and Economics [PDF]

open access: yes
In their latest book (2008), Bruno Frey and the members of the research group he chairs at the University of Zurich announce that happiness research is leading a revolution in economics.
Mario A. Cedrini, Anna M. Carabelli
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Young People Raised by Grandparents and Parents or Single Parents

open access: yesPsicologia, 2010
The last three decades were characterized by changes in family structures, which influenced the relationship between grandparents, parents and grandchildren in situations of care.
Cristina Maria de Souza Brito Dias   +2 more
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The association between grandparental involvement and adolescent psychological well-being independent of parental involvement

open access: yes, 2012
Includes bibliographical references.Background and objective: Grandparents have the potential to play a supportive and nurturing role in the lives of their grandchildren.
Gaibie, Fairuz
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Methodological Challenges in Studying Wealthy Families

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Studying the wealthy is not easy. This piece provides suggestions for recruitment, interview strategies, and design to gain high‐quality data on wealthy people. It is based on an interview study of 81 US racially‐diverse families with a median net worth of $25 million. First, to gain access to the wealthy, it is key for the researcher to use a
Annette Lareau
wiley   +1 more source

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