The Influence of Grandparents on the Lives of Children and Adolescents

Child Development Perspectives

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 55-60

  Dunifon, Rachel ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Grandchildren; Grandparents

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873651522     PISSN: 17508592     EISSN: 17508606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cdep.12016     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. Bachman, H. J., & Chase-Lansdale, P. L. (2005). Custodial grandmothers' physical, mental, and economic well-being: Comparisons of primary caregivers from low-income neighborhoods. Family Relations, 54, 475-487.
2. Barnett, M., Scaramella, L., Neppl, T., Ontai, L., & Conger, R. (2010). Grandmother involvement as a protective factor for early childhood social adjustment. Journal of Family Psychology, 24, 635-645.
3. Bilaver, L. A., Kienberger Jaudes, P., Koepke, D., & Goerge, R. M. (1999). Note on research-The health of children in foster care. The Social Service Review, 73, 401.
4. Billing, A., Macomber, J., & Kortenkamp, K. (2002). Children cared for by relatives: What do we know about their well-being? The Urban Institute. Retrieved February 2012, from http://www.urban.org/publications/310486.html
5. Brandon, P. (2005). Welfare receipt among children living with grandparents. Population Research and Policy Review, 24, 411-429.
6. Bryson, K., & Casper, L. (1999). Coresident grandparents and grandchildren. U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved February 2012, from http://www.census.gov/prod/99pubs/p23-198.pdf
7. Bureau of Labor Statistics. (2011). Employment characteristics of families in 2010. Washington, DC: United States Department of Labor.
8. Chase-Lansdale, P. L., Brooks-Gunn, J., & Paikoff, R. (1991). Research and programs for adolescent mothers: Missing links and future promises. Family Relations, 40, 396-403.
9. Chase-Lansdale, P. L., Brooks-Gunn, J., & Zamsky, E. (1994). Young African-American multigenerational families in poverty: Quality of mothering and grandmothering. Child Development, 65, 373-393.
10. Cherlin, A., & Furstenberg, F. (1992). The new American grandparent: A place in the family, life apart. New York: Basic Books.
11. Coleman, J. (1988). Social capital and the creation of human capital. American Journal of Sociology, 94(Suppl.), S95-S120.
12. DeLeire, T., & Kalil, A. (2002). Good things come in 3s: Mutigenerational coresidence and adolescent adjustment. Demography, 39, 393-413.
13. Dolbin-MacNab, M. (2006). Just like raising your own? Grandmothers' perceptions of parenting a second time around. Family Relations, 55, 564-575. doi:10.1111/j.1741-3729.2006.00426.x
14. Dolbin-MacNab, M. L., & Keiley, M. K. (2009). Navigating interdependence: How adolescents raised solely by grandparents experience their family relationships. Family Relations, 58, 162-175.
15. Dunifon, R., & Bajracharya, A. (2012). The role of grandparents in the lives of youth. Journal of Family Issues, 33, 1168-1194.
16. Dunifon, R., & DiScuillo, E. (2012). Kinship care and communication. Cornell cooperative extension fact sheet. Retrieved February 2012, from http://www.human.cornell.edu/pam/outreach/parenting/research/loader.cfm?csModule=security/getfile&PageID=84013
17. Dunifon, R., & Kopko, K. (2011). Relationship quality and parenting among grandparent caregivers and teens. Presented at the 2011 Meeting of the Brookdale Foundation Relatives as Parents Conference, Denver, CO.
18. Dunifon, R., & Kopko, K. (2012). Parenting among grandparent caregivers and teens: The role of parents and impact on the grandparent/grandchild relationship quality. Poster presented at the 2012 meetings of the Society for Research on Adolescence.
19. Dunifon, R., & Kowaleski-Jones, L. (2007). The influence of grandparents in single-mother families. Journal of Marriage and Family, 69, 465-481.
20. Elder, G., & Conger, R. (2000). Wisdom of the ages. In G. Elder & R. Conger (Eds.), Children of the land (pp. 127-151). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
21. Gleeson, J. P., Wesley, J. M., Ellis, R., Seryak, C., Talley, G. W., & Robinson, J. (2009). Becoming involved in raising a relative's child: Reasons, caregiver motivations and pathways to informal kinship care. Child & Family Social Work, 14, 300-310.
22. Gordon, R., Chase-Lansdale, P. L., & Brooks-Gunn, J. (2004). Extended households and the life course of young mothers: Understanding the associations using a sample of mothers with premature, low birth weight babies. Child Development, 75, 1013-1038.
23. Hao, L., & Brinton, M. (1997). Productive activities and support systems of single mothers. American Journal of Sociology, 102, 1205-1344.
24. Jendrick, M. P. (1994). Grandparents who parent their grandchildren: Circumstances and decisions. The Gerontologist, 34, 206-216.
25. Luster, T., & Dubow, E. (1990). Predictors of the quality of the home environment that adolescent mothers provide for their school-aged children. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 19, 475-493.
26. Macomber, J., Geen, R., & Clark, R. (2001). Children cared for by relatives: Who are they and how are they faring? The Urban Institute. Retrieved February 2012, from http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/anf_b28.pdf
27. McLanahan, S., & Sandefur, G. (1994). Growing up with a single parent: What hurts, what helps? Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
28. Messing, J. T. (2006). From the child's perspective: A qualitative analysis of kinship care placements. Children and Youth Services Review, 28, 1415-1434.
29. Mollborn, S., Fomby, P., & Dennis, J. (2011). Who matters for children's early development? Race/ethnicity and extended household structures in the United States. Child Indicators Research, 4, 389-411.
30. Mueller, M. M., & Elder, Jr. G. H. (2003). Family contingencies across the generations: Grandparent-grandchild relationship in holistic perspective. Journal of Marriage and Family, 65, 404-417.
31. National Center for Health Statistics. (2010). National vital statistics reports: United States life tables, 2006. Retrieved May 2012, from http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr58/nvsr58_21.pdf
32. Pew Research Center. (2010). The return of the multigenerational family household. Retrieved May 2012, from http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/files/2010/10/752-multi-generational-families.pdf
33. Pittman, L. D. (2007). Grandmothers' involvement among young adolescents growing up in poverty. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 17, 89-116.
34. Pittman, L. D., & Boswell, M. (2008). Low-income multigenerational households: Variation in family functioning by mothers' age and race/ethnicity. Journal of Family Issues, 29, 851-881.
35. Ruiz, S. A., & Silverstein, M. (2007). Relationships with grandparents and the emotional well-being of late adolescent and young adult grandchildren. Journal of Social Issues, 63, 793-808.
36. Silverstein, M., & Ruiz, S. (2006). Breaking the chain: How grandparents moderate the transmission of maternal depression to their grandchildren. Family Relations, 55, 601-612.
37. Smith, G. C., & Palmieri, P. A. (2007). Risk of psychological difficulties among children raised by custodial grandparents. Psychiatric Services, 58, 1303-1310.
38. Smith, G., Palmieri, P., Hancock, G., & Richardson, R. (2008). Custodial grandmothers' psychological distress, dysfunctional parenting and grandchildren's adjustment. International Aging and Human Development, 67, 327-357.
39. Solomon, J., & Marx, J. (1995). To grandmother's house we go: Health and school adjustment of children raised solely by grandparents. The Gerontologist, 35, 386-394.
40. Sun, Y. (2003). The well-being of adolescents in households with no biological parents. Journal of Marriage and Family, 65, 894-909.
41. Sweet, J., & Bumpass, L. (1996). The National Survey of Families and Households-Waves 1 and 2: Data description and documentation. Center for Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Retrieved February 2012, from http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/nsfh/home.htm
42. Unger, D., & Cooley, M. (1992). Partner and grandmother contact in Black and White teen parent families. Journal of Adolescent Health, 13, 546-552.
43. U.S. Census Bureau. (2009). Average number of own children under 18 per family, by type of family: 1955 to present. Retrieved from http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/hh-fam.htmlht
44. U.S. Census Bureau. (2011a). America's families and living arrangements: 2008. Retrieved from http://www.census.gov/hhes/families/data/cps2008.html
45. U.S. Census Bureau. (2011b). America's families and living arrangements: 2011. Retrieved from http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/hh-fam/cps2011.html
46. Wakschlag, L., Chase-Lansdale, L., & Brooks-Gunn, J. (1996). Not just "ghosts in the nursery": Contemporaneous intergenerational relationships and parenting in young African-American families. Child Development, 67, 2131-2147.
47. Whitbeck, L. B., Hoyt, D. R., & Huck, S. M. (1993). Family relationship history, contemporary parent-grandparent relationship quality, and the grandparent-grandchild relationship. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 55, 1025-1035.
48. Yorgason, J., Padilla-Walker, L., & Jackson, J. (2011). Nonresidential grandparents' emotional and financial involvement in relation to early adolescent and grandchild outcomes. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 21, 552-558.