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Grandparents raising grandchildren: negotiating the complexities of role-identity conflict.
- Source :
- Child & Family Social Work; Aug2012, Vol. 17 Issue 3, p306-315, 10p
- Publication Year :
- 2012
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Abstract
- ABSTRACT The purpose of this qualitative study was to better understand the experience of grandparents who are raising their grandchildren in New South Wales, Australia. In-depth interviews were conducted with 34 grandparents and their narratives transcribed and studied using paradigmatic analysis to reveal common themes among the stories told. Identity theory further informed the discussion of these findings. Woven throughout the grandparent narratives is a story of paradox - of experience simultaneously made up of pain/pleasure, myth/reality, inclusion/exclusion, being deserving/undeserving, visible/invisible and voiced/silenced. The findings signal a significant role-identity conflict for grandparents who are parenting grandchildren. This study points to the need for policy and practice that more closely reflects the complexity of experience associated with the grandparent-as-parent role. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- ATTITUDE (Psychology)
CHILDREN of people with mental illness
COGNITIVE dissonance
CUSTODY of children
EXPERIENCE
DOMESTIC violence
GRANDCHILDREN
GRANDPARENTS
GROUP identity
HEALTH status indicators
INTERVIEWING
RESEARCH methodology
NEGOTIATION
PARENTING
ROLE conflict
SOCIAL justice
QUALITATIVE research
JUDGMENT sampling
SOCIAL attitudes
NARRATIVES
THEMATIC analysis
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13567500
- Volume :
- 17
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Child & Family Social Work
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 77684557
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2206.2011.00781.x