Filling the parenting gap? grandparent involvement with U.K. adolescents

• Main Authors: Tan, Jo Pei, Buchanan, Ann, Flouri, Eirini, Attar-Schwartz, Shalhevet, Griggs, Julia
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Sage Publications 2010
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/14753/1/Filling%20the%20parenting%20gap%20grandparent%20involvement%20with%20U.K.%20adolescents.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/14753/; https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0192513X09360499

With people living longer and more mothers working, there is some evidence that grandparents are more involved in rearing the next generation. Although there is research in the United Kingdom on kinship care, there is no national research on the extent of grandparent involvement from the perspective...