Transformations in the role of grandparents across welfare states

Contemporary Grandparenting: Changing Family Relationships in Global Contexts

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 27-49

  Herlofson, Katharina ^a   Hagestad, Gunhild O ^a,b,c  

^a NORWEGIAN SOCIAL RESEARCH NOVA   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AGDER   (Norway)

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