Description:
An analysis of how low-income, urban black custodial grandmothers manage child care, using ethnographic research methods--including in-depth interviews with custodial grandmothers and child care agents over a twelve-month period and participant observation sessions in child care settings--to explore the following questions: (1) What do low-income, urban black custodial grandmothers do for child care when they are thrust into the role of parenting their grandchildren?; (2) What are the strategies they adopt for their grandchildren's care and development while they are serving as their primary and sole caretakers?; (3) How do different strategies affect the way children spend their time?; and (4) What comparisons can be made in the care offered children being cared for by their grandmothers that differ by the type of care arrangement grandmothers have with their grandchildren (e.g. private kinship care, legal guardianship, or kinship foster care) and/or the types of child care services and resources available in their neighborhoods? The goal of this project is to better understand individual family decisions within the context of their family forms and dynamics and the choices available at the state and community level.
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Administration for Children and Families/OPRE Projects
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