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Looking after grandchildren: gender differences in 'when,' 'what,' and 'why': Evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

open access: yesDemographic Research, 2020
Background: Grandparents play a vital role in providing childcare to families. However, little is known about when grandmothers and grandfathers look after grandchildren, what they do with them, and why.
Giorgio Di Gessa   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Lactation, Childrearing, and Gender Justice

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this article, I discuss the significance of early infant feeding choices for the goal of gender justice. Focusing on human lactation practices, I identify Exclusive Gestational Nursing (EGN) as the norm in advanced industrial societies, which creates the expectation and permission for gestators, and only gestators, to nurse children, and ...
Jenny Brown
wiley   +1 more source

Like Grandmother, Like Mother? Multigenerational Mediation of Young Children’s Media Use

open access: yesInternational Journal of Communication, 2023
Research on the mediation of children’s media use tends to overlook the existence of several significant caregivers, who may apply different mediation practices.
Galit Nimrod, Nelly Elias, Dafna Lemish
doaj  

Grandparents in Multigenerational Households [PDF]

open access: yes
This study provides a profile of the households with coresident grandparents, using the European Community Household Panel. It identifies rising rates of coresidence with grandparents in Portugal between 1994 and 2001, and explores the nature of such ...
Paula Albuquerque
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Why Fun Aunties Matter: A Modest Account

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this article, I offer a child‐centred account of the value of company‐keeping relationships between children and adults. These are relationships enjoyed by a child and an adult who is neither a mere acquaintance nor integrally involved in that child's care or upbringing.
Lesley Jamieson
wiley   +1 more source

Emotional Expressions in Grandparent-Infant Grandchild Interaction in the Course of the First Year of Life

open access: yesEurope's Journal of Psychology, 2013
This longitudinal and naturalistic study aims to describe and compare grandparent and infant emotional expressions that precede, accompany and follow spontaneous imitation in the course of their dyadic interaction.
Anastasia Pratikaki, Theano Kokkinaki
doaj   +1 more source

Maternal depression across childhood and offspring young adult depression and anxiety: Testing adolescent emotion dynamics as transdiagnostic mechanisms

open access: yesJCPP Advances, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Early exposure to maternal depression can increase risk for offspring mental health problems across the lifespan. Less is known about the transdiagnostic pathways through which maternal depression influences offspring mental health risk in young adulthood.
Gabrielle R. Rinne   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Grandparents and women's participation in the labor market [PDF]

open access: yes
The conciliation of work and family life is a challenge to most women. In some countries, although not in southern Europe, women make significant use of part-time schedules as a way of balancing work and family life.
José Passos, Paula Albuquerque
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Grandparenting in Europe. The health and wellbeing of grandparents caring for grandchildren: The role of cumulative advantage/disadvantage [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Our project focuses on a previously neglected area of research: how does providing care for grandchildren impact on the health and wellbeing of grandparents?
Glaser, Karen   +5 more
core  

Studying to Support? Exploring Remittance Responsibilities Among Black South African Graduates

open access: yesJournal of International Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A large majority of Black South Africans remain restricted by intergenerational education and economic disadvantages. Labour market returns to tertiary qualifications are high, but the share of youth accessing post‐secondary education remains low.
Emma Whitelaw   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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