Grandparents in Cultural Context supplies a protracted past due worldwide view of the altering roles of grandparents. The 11 major chapters are by way of specialists within the Americas, Europe and Russia, Asia, and Africa and the center East, and the editors combine their chapters with earlier writings on grandparenthood. instead of technical or statistical learn studies, every one bankruptcy offers a thought-provoking and finished assessment of study, real-life case tales, cultural affects, and utilized implications for grandparenthood throughout and inside societies.

Calling designated cognizance to the jobs of grandfathers and grandparenthood in societies formerly un-represented within the literature, it offers a number of hundred new citations of labor formerly unavailable in English-language courses. available to either students and scholars, it has numerous pedagogical positive aspects (e.g. internet hyperlinks, dialogue questions) that make it important as a textual content for upper-division undergraduate or graduate point periods in behavioral, social, and family members sciences. it really is suitable to psychology, gerontology, kinfolk experiences, anthropology, family/comparative sociology, schooling, social paintings, gender reports, ethnic reviews, psychiatry, and variety and foreign reviews courses. Practitioners, provider services, policymakers, and the world over minded grandparents also will take pleasure in this book.