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Grandparenting Children with Disabilities (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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Grandparenting Children with Disabilities (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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Childhood disabilities, particularly cognitive disabilities, are on
the rise yet social programs and services to help US families
respond to disabilities are not. Many families turn to grandparents
for assistance juggling work, family responsibilities, and
specialized therapies. This book is based on in-depth interviews
with grandparents who are providing at least some care to
grandchildren with disabilities. The analyses will help to better
understand (1) under what conditions grandparents provide care and
support, (2) what types and intensities of care and support
grandparents provide, and (3) the impact of that care and support
on grandparents' social, emotional, physical, and financial
wellbeing. In this fascinating and provocative book, Madonna
Harrington Meyer and Ynesse Abdul-Malak take readers on a deep dive
into the complex lives of grandparents who care for their disabled
grandchildren. In Grandparenting Children with Disabilities, their
interviews reveal the joy, meaning, and purpose grandparents find
in caregiving, the challenges and frustrations they encounter, and
the many ways they compromise their own health and well-being for
the sake of their grandchildren. Drawing from theories of
cumulative inequality and from their deep knowledge of the US
policy context, the authors lay bare the systemic failures that
leave families of children with disabilities without adequate
support and that place the most vulnerable among them at grave
physical, emotional, and financial risk... Jane McLeod, Provost
Professor, Indiana University Grandparents in the U.S. already take
on far more parenting responsibilities as compared to their peers
in other countries. Grandparenting Children with Disabilities
demonstrates that the intensity of these responsibilities is
compounded for those whose grandchildren have disabilities given
limited policy supports and a society still largely unaccommodating
to those with disabilities. This book beautifully navigates the
tension between the love these grandparents have for their
grandchildren and the challenges they face caring for them. Pamela
Herd, Professor, Georgetown University Grandparenting Children with
Disabilities offers important insights about the lived experience
of older adults who care for and care about their
grandchildren...The authors skillfully integrate the stories they
tell with consideration of macro social structural influences and
life course perspectives... I recommend it highly! Eva Kahana,
Distinguished University Professor, Case Western Reserve
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