Grandparenting
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– Evaluation –
Biological Parents and Kinship Care: It's Complicated!! Research and tips to support families. 
Description: This research brief highlights the complex and influential role of grandparents or other relatives raising children.
– General Information –
Author: Mader, Sharon (3 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet describes the benefits of grand parenting for both the grandparents and the grandchildren. It suggests ways to be a better grandparent even in long-distance relationships.
Focus on the Little Things: Grandparent-Grandchild Relationships
Description: Focuses on the importance of quality time between grandparents and grandchildren by making memories and taking time to be together whether near or far.
Author: DelCampo, Diana (3 more by this author)
Description: A publication on how more grandparents are becoming the largest growing group seeking to become foster parents or to adopt their biological grandchildren. The roles of being a grandparent have changed dramatically and this publication focuses on relationships with grandchildren ad 30 easy and quick activities to do with grandchildren.
Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
Description: Explores some of the joys and challenges in raising a second generation as well as information and support services that may be of assistance to the grandparents and their families.
Grandparents and Child Safety: An Overview of Today's World
Description: Grandmothers, grandfathers, and grandchildren love spending time together. But grandparents can be bewildered by today's safety recommendations. They raised their own children safely. Why doesn't the "old" way work anymore? While we might wish for an older time, children are growing up today, not yesterday.
Author: Nolan, Jill (6 more by this author)
Description: A fact sheet that provides grandparents with reasons why taking the role of a parent again is a positive influence on a child if carried out the right way.
Grandparents Can Be Supportive During Divorce
Author: Brintnall-Peterson, Mary (3 more by this author)
Description: This is a fact sheet with suggestions on how grandparents, through babysitting and providing support, can help through a divorce.
Grandparents raising grandchildren
Author: Pamela B. Teaster, Tammy L. Henderson
Description: A factsheet that discusses grandparents raising grandchildren, the reason while people do it, statistics about it, and help for people who want to take part in it.
Grandparents Raising Their Grandchildren
Author: Mader, Sharon (3 more by this author)
Description: This is a fact sheet on the heightened number of grandparental care in America. Also, the reasons why the numbers are increasing and where to get help.
Ideas for Intergenerational Living Newsletter
Description: This issue of the "Ideas for Intergenerational Living Newsletter" focuses on how intergenerational communication can help to sustain small family farms; how 4-H youth in Chester County, PA, connect with assisted living and longterm care residents; and ideas for activities that grandparents can do with their grandchildren. Includes information on intergenerational grants and additional websites.
Numbers Rising: More Grandparents Raising Grandkids
Description: This article discusses the problems created as health and human services planners develop education, training and support programs to serve children at risk and their caregivers.
Older Adults Who Are Raising Children May Qualify For Tax Refund
Author: Brintnall-Peterson, Mary (3 more by this author)
Description: This is a fact sheet on how grandparents may be eligible for earned income tax credit when they take care of grandchildren and fall into certain income ranges.
Description: Issues for grandparents and other relatives who are raising children.
Simple Ideas for Facilitating Grandparent-Grandchild Exchanges at Home
Author: Kaplan, Matthew (11 more by this author)
Description: This tip sheet contains some simple ideas focused on how to help build closer relationships between young family members and older adults.
The Changing Face Of Grandparenthood
Description: Explains how the baby boomer signals some interesting changes in the enterprise of grandparenting and how grandparents of previous eras will identify with different historical events, have different ideas about work and play, and have different heroes. All of these differences translate into probable changes in the way grandparents spend time with their grandchildren.
Trend Analysis: Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
Description: The number of grandparents and other kin raising children has increased substantially in the last decade. This article describes and analyzes this trend.
UW-Extension Survey Shows What People Enjoy About Being Grandparents
Author: Brintnall-Peterson, Mary (3 more by this author)
Description: This resource highlights the results of a survey on what grandparents enjoy about their roles as grandparents.
WonderWise Parent Online Courses: Grandletters
Author: Smith, Charles (28 more by this author)
Description: This resource encourages grandchildren and grandparents to share their thoughts, feelings and experiences. From it they will hopefully draw closer together, learn from each other and build a reservoir of happy memories.
– Other Resources –
Grand Families: Children Raised by Grandparents
Description: As more grandparents take on the task of raising their grandchildren, the changes in communities brought about by the influence of this unique family structure become more powerful in shaping local and state policies. This website from SeniorCare.net provides links to resources on the growing number of grandparents raising grandchildren.
– Professional Development –
Biological Parents and Kinship Care: It's Complicated!! Research and tips to support families.
Description: This research brief highlights the complex and influential role of grandparents or other relatives raising children.
Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: The Role of Grandparents in the Lives of Youth
Author: Dunifon, Rachel (4 more by this author); Kimberly Kopko, Denyse Variano, Jackie Davis-Manigaulte
Description: In this archived webinar (conducted October 19, 2012), Cornell University and Extension faculty describe a unique study developed to better understand families in which grandparents are raising teenaged grandchildren. They discuss how adolescent development is impacted for teens being raised by grandparents, and describe Parenting A Second Time Around (PASTA), a successful program developed by Cornell Cooperative Extension for working with grandparents raising grandchildren.
– Programming Resource –
2006-2007 Cooperative Extension System Publication on Aging Issues
Description: This publication provides resources and contacts on aging issues, organized by state. It includes the name and contact information for each of the partner institutions, as well as more detailed contact information for the heads of the aging education programs. Where the states have specific extension or other programs related to aging issues, more information describing the program is included.
Author: Nolan, Jill (6 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet provides an overview of what grandparents who take on the responsibilities of raising their grandchildren can expect. Provides links to other resources and information.
Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: The Role of Grandparents in the Lives of Youth
Author: Dunifon, Rachel (4 more by this author); Kimberly Kopko, Denyse Variano, Jackie Davis-Manigaulte
Description: In this archived webinar (conducted October 19, 2012), Cornell University and Extension faculty describe a unique study developed to better understand families in which grandparents are raising teenaged grandchildren. They discuss how adolescent development is impacted for teens being raised by grandparents, and describe Parenting A Second Time Around (PASTA), a successful program developed by Cornell Cooperative Extension for working with grandparents raising grandchildren.
Relatives as Parents Program (RAPP)
Description: This program is designed to assist grandparents and other relatives who have taken on the role of primary caregiver for related children. We provide education and training to learn new parenting and advocacy skills, mutual peer support groups, referral and access to appropriate community based services and resources
Simple Ideas for Facilitating Grandparent-Grandchild Exchanges at Home
Author: Kaplan, Matthew (11 more by this author)
Description: This tip sheet contains some simple ideas focused on how to help build closer relationships between young family members and older adults.
– Research –
Biological Parents and Kinship Care: It's Complicated!! Research and tips to support families.
Description: This research brief highlights the complex and influential role of grandparents or other relatives raising children.
Grandchildren Raised by Grandparents: A Troubling Trend
Description: This study describes the demographic distribution of grandchildren living in grandparent households in California and sets priorities for health and human service needs for grandparents and the grandchildren under their care.
Grandma and Grandpa Taking Care of the Kids: Patterns of Involvement
Author: Guzman, Lina
Description: This research brief provides a statistical snapshot of grandparental child care in American families by shedding light on who provides this care, what type and how much is provided, and some of the financial benefits of this care for the families involved.
Relatives as Parents Program (RAPP)
Description: This program is designed to assist grandparents and other relatives who have taken on the role of primary caregiver for related children. We provide education and training to learn new parenting and advocacy skills, mutual peer support groups, referral and access to appropriate community based services and resources
The Changing Face Of Grandparenthood
Description: Explains how the baby boomer signals some interesting changes in the enterprise of grandparenting and how grandparents of previous eras will identify with different historical events, have different ideas about work and play, and have different heroes. All of these differences translate into probable changes in the way grandparents spend time with their grandchildren.
Trend Analysis: Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
Description: The number of grandparents and other kin raising children has increased substantially in the last decade. This article describes and analyzes this trend.