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Grandmothers Providing Care for Grandchildren: Consequences of Various Levels of Caregiving* This article explores the differences between grandmothers who provide different levels of caregiving responsibility for a grandchild. One-hundred and one grandmothers participated in the study: 23 who were providing full-time care for a grandchild, 33 who were providing part-time care for a grandchild, and 45 who visited a grandchild regularly but had no caregiving responsibilih for that grandchild. Results showed that the grandchild's behavior problems made the largest impact on the grandmother increasing her feelings of burden and parenting stress and decreasing her grandparenting satisfaction. In addition, full-time caregiving grandmothers experienced more burden and parenting stress and less grandparenting satisfaction than part-time caregiving grandmothers. Full-time caregiving grandmothers also reported less life satisfaction than other grandmothers in the study. An area that deserves attention in future -tudies is how the relationship with the adult child (the grandchild 's parent) influences the stress Creighton, 1991; Hayslip, Shore, Henderson, Jendrek, 1994; Larsen, 1991; Minkler Minkler, Roe, Shore, 1990). Research has shown that grandparents do not choose to take on the full-time care of their grandchildren (Albrecht, 1954; Cherlin Hayslip et al., 1998; Jendrek, 1994; Thomas, 1986a; Thomas, 1986b; Timberlake, 1981; Troll, 1983). However, when the grandchild's home circumstances become troubled, grandparents are often the ones that step in to assist. In many cases this is a last resort option occurring after the circumstances in the grandchild's home have deteriorated to the point that the state has required an out-of-home placement for the child (McAdoo, 1990). …
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