Contemporary grandparenting : changing family relationships in global contexts / edited by Sara Arber and Virpi Timonen.

Incluye bibliografía.

_ A new look at grandparenting / Virpi Timonen and Sara Arber -- Part one. Grandparents responding to economic and family transformations. Transformations in the role of grandparents across welfare states / Katharina Herlofson and Gunhild O. Hagestad ; The wellbeing of grandparents caring for grandchildren in rural China and the United States / Lindsey Baker and Merril Silverstein ; Grandmothers juggling work and grandchildren in the United States / Madonna Harrington Meyer ; Solidarity, ambivalence and multigenerational co-residence in Hong Kong / Lisanne S.F. Ko ; Grandparenting in the context of care for grandchildren by foreign domestic workers / Shirley Hsiao-Li Sun -- part two. Grandparent identities and agency. Being there, yet not interfering : the paradoxes of grandparenting / Vanessa May, Jennifer Mason and Lynda Clarke ; Grandparental agency after adult children´s divorce / Virpi Timonen and Martha Doyle ; Grandfathering : the construction of new identities and masculinities / Anna Tarrant ; Understanding adolescent grandchildren´s influence on their grandparents / Alice Delerue Matos and Rita Borges Neves ; Social contact between grandparents and older grandchildren : a three-generation perspective / Katharina Mahne and Oliver Huxhold ; Grandparenting in the 21st century : new directions / Sara Arber and Virpi Timonen.