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- Title: Making a Difference: The Role of Family Services Working with Families Where Grandparents are Raising Grandchildren (Report)
- Author : Elder Law Review
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 82 KB
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INTRODUCTION Grandparents have always played an important part in the lives of children--as child minders, role models, keepers of family wisdom and traditions, as providers of fun, presents and outings, as a buffer between children and their parents, to name just a few. in the age of the nuclear family and increasing social mobility, it could be said that for many grandparents this presence has lessened. However for increasing numbers of grandparents a new role--that of primary carer for their grandchildren--is taking over and subsuming traditional family relationships. For these grandparents the whole world can be turned upside down, and while governments and policy makers, and the families themselves, may consider it only natural that children should be cared for by family members, there is still relatively little understanding of the impact this has, on all concerned, and the level of support that may be needed to make it work. Big questions still remain about not just the unique kinds of supports needed by grandparents who are carers, but their entitlement to existing supports that would routinely be offered to others caring for children--to foster carers, for example, and to parents themselves.