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Counting on Grandmothers: Black Mothers' and Fathers' Reliance on Grandmothers for Parenting Support
dc.contributor.authorHunter, Andreaen_US
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dc.date.issued1997en_US
dc.identifier.citationHUNTER, ANDREA (1997). "Counting on Grandmothers: Black Mothers' and Fathers' Reliance on Grandmothers for Parenting Support." Journal of Family Issues 3(18): 251-269. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/66527>en_US
dc.identifier.issn0192-513Xen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/66527
dc.description.abstractThis article examines Black young adult parents' reliance on grandmothers for parenting support. The sample of 487 parents, 18 to 34 years old, was drawn from the National Survey of Black Americans. Parents most often nominated grandmothers as the person they could count on for child care assistance and parental guidance. Mothers and fathers did not differ in their overall nominations of grandmothers. However, mothers were more likely than fathers to rely on grandmothers for both child care assistance and parenting advice. Fathers were more likely than mothers to rely on grandmothers for child care assistance only. Factors affecting parents' reliance on grandmothers for parenting support varied by gender. For mothers, family closeness, the number of generations in multigeneration family lineages, residence in the rural South, and family proximity were related to increased reliance on grandmothers for parenting support. Among fathers, being employed and family proximity increased their reliance on grandmothers.en_US
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dc.publisherSAGE Periodicals Pressen_US
dc.titleCounting on Grandmothers: Black Mothers' and Fathers' Reliance on Grandmothers for Parenting Supporten_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelSocial Worken_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelSociologyen_US
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelSocial Sciencesen_US
dc.description.peerreviewedPeer Revieweden_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumUniversity of Michiganen_US
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