Readings - Articles for laypersons

Title:  Grandparents as Surrogate Parents - "Valentines All Year Long" by Frances Diana Hayden pp 4-5, 22-24 – and – There Ought to be a Law, by Ruth Diminguez, pp. 25-27
Published: Children's Voice, published by the Child Welfare League of America, 1998, Vol. 7 (2).
Content: Both articles are about grandparents raising grandchildren.

Title: Grandparents: Hands Across the Generations
Published: Modern Maturity, Jan.-Feb. 1999, by Joe Perkins, AARP President
Content: opinion piece/editorial on grandparents raising grandchildren.

Title: Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
Published: Family Futures, 1997, Vol. 1 (6)
Content: Family Futures is a project of the Institute for Families in Society, University of South Carolina, about parenting the second time around. This entire issue is devoted to concerns of grandparents raising grandchildren.

Title:  Helping Grandparents Raise Grandkids
Published: The Capital Times, Madison, WI newspaper, April 21, 1999, by Pat Schneider
Content: Article about local grandparent raising her grandchild, references University of Wisconsin-Extension Specialist, Mary Brintnall-Peterson and Ethel Dunn, Grandparents United for Children’s Rights, Inc and Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Partnership of Wisconsin.

Title:  A New Definition of Family
Published: Secure Retirement, March/April 1999, by Trudi Jo Davis
Content: Reviews the GrandFamilies House, a first-of-its-kind housing complex specifically for low-income grandparents raising their grandchildren in Boston, MA

Title:  Raising the Grandchildren
Published: Metropolitan (Georgia State University), Summer 1997, Vol.1(2), pp1-3, by Ann Hardie
Content: Describes the Project Healthy Grandparents program which helps grandparents raising grandchildren "reduce the stress of being a parent again while improving their health".
Ordering information: Project Healthy Grandparents, phone: (404) 651-0341; fax (404) 651-0342; website: http://www.gus.edu/hgrandpar
 

 


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