Dedication

pp iii-iv

Contents

pp v-vi

List of tables and figures

pp vii-viii

Notes on contributors

pp ix-xiv

one - A new look at grandparenting

pp 1-24

Part One - Grandparents responding to economic and family transformations

pp 25-26

two - Transformations in the role of grandparents across welfare states

pp 27-50

three - The wellbeing of grandparents caring for grandchildren in China and the United States

pp 51-70

four - Grandmothers juggling work and grandchildren in the United States

pp 71-90

five - Solidarity, ambivalence and multigenerational co-residence in Hong Kong

pp 91-112

six - Grandparenting in the context of care for grandchildren by foreign domestic workers

pp 113-136

Part Two - Grandparent identities and agency

pp 137-138

seven - Being there yet not interfering: the paradoxes of grandparenting

pp 139-158

eight - Grandparental agency after adult children’s divorce

pp 159-180

nine - Grandfathering: the construction of new identities and masculinities

pp 181-202

ten - Understanding adolescent grandchildren’s influence on their grandparents

pp 203-224

eleven - Social contact between grandparents and older grandchildren: a three-generation perspective

pp 225-246

twelve - Grandparenting in the 21st century: new directions

pp 247-264

Index

pp 265-270