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The 'new'grandmother

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This article discusses the new generation of grandmothers. The author, providing a personal narrative of her own experiences of becoming a grandmother, examines the impact cultural changes have had on grandparenting and asserts that grandmothers of her generation try and provide some form of tradition and connection with the past.

Author: Attias-Donfut, Claudine
Publisher: Transaction Publishers, Inc.
Publication Name: Ageing International
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0163-5158
Year: 2001
Influence, Social change, Intergenerational relations

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Countdown to becoming a granny for the 21st century

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This article provides a personal narrative of a woman's experience of becoming a grandmother for the first time. The author discusses her role as a single, working mother and how the birth of her grandson had a positive impact on her life.

Author: Pitt, Ruth
Publisher: Transaction Publishers, Inc.
Publication Name: Ageing International
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0163-5158
Year: 2001
Working mothers, Single mothers

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What revolution: whose revolution?

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This article examines the future of grandparent-child relations. The author, focusing on social change, maintains the rapid decline in the birthrate due to the growing amount of working women has endangered the role of grandmother.

Author: Weldon, Fay
Publisher: Transaction Publishers, Inc.
Publication Name: Ageing International
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0163-5158
Year: 2001
Working women, Birth rates

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Subjects list: Social aspects, United Kingdom, Grandparent and child, Grandparent-child relations, Grandmothers
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