TY - JOUR
T1 - Raising grandchildren
T2 - The experiences of Black and White grandmothers
AU - Pruchno, Rachel
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by a grant "Psychological Well-Being of Coresident Grandparents" from the National Institute on Aging (R01 AC 11041). The author thanks Dr. Julie Patrick, Mr. Jason Hayden, and Ms. Dottie McKinney for their review of an earlier draft.
PY - 1999
Y1 - 1999
N2 - This article contrasts the experiences of 398 White and 319 Black grandmothers raising their grandchildren in the absence of the middle generation. Similarities include age, education, familial relationship to the grandchild, age of the grandchild being raised, reasons that grandmothers are raising their grandchildren, behaviors characteristic of the grandchildren, and impacts on the grandmother's work life. Differences include marital status, work status, and income. Black grandmothers are more likely than White grandmothers to have peers who also live with their grandchildren. Black grandmothers are also more likely to come from families in which multiple generations lived together and to be receiving support from formal sources. White grandmothers experienced more burden from their caregiving role than did Black grandmothers.
AB - This article contrasts the experiences of 398 White and 319 Black grandmothers raising their grandchildren in the absence of the middle generation. Similarities include age, education, familial relationship to the grandchild, age of the grandchild being raised, reasons that grandmothers are raising their grandchildren, behaviors characteristic of the grandchildren, and impacts on the grandmother's work life. Differences include marital status, work status, and income. Black grandmothers are more likely than White grandmothers to have peers who also live with their grandchildren. Black grandmothers are also more likely to come from families in which multiple generations lived together and to be receiving support from formal sources. White grandmothers experienced more burden from their caregiving role than did Black grandmothers.
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U2 - 10.1093/geront/39.2.209
DO - 10.1093/geront/39.2.209
M3 - Article
C2 - 10224717
AN - SCOPUS:0032953888
VL - 39
SP - 209
EP - 221
JO - The Gerontologist
JF - The Gerontologist
SN - 0016-9013
IS - 2
ER -