...Grandparents Raising Their Grandchildren Stephanie Cooper 02/25/2014 Abstract A lot of parents are leaving the responsibility of parenting roles due to numerous personal and economic situations. Many of these household may contain three generations, with the most rapid growth occurring in the house holds containing grandchildren and grandparents only. In filling these roles there are numerous health, legal, financial, education, and emotional barriers that make this very difficult to grandparents. If they are not successful the alternative for most of these children is definitely foster is inadequate care. The role of the grandparents is not likely to change anytime soon. References •Joselin D, Brouard A. The prevalence of grandmothers as primary caregivers in a poor pediatric population. J Community Health. 1995 Oct; 20(5):383–401. •Roe KM, Minkler M, Saunders F, Thomson GE. Health of grandmothers raising children of the crack cocaine epidemic. Med Care. 1996 Nov; 34(11):1072–1084. •Minkler M, Fuller-Thomson E, Miller D, Driver D. Depression in grandparents raising grandchildren: results of a national longitudinal study. Arch FM Med. 1997 Sep-Oct; 6(5):445–452. •Jendrek MP. Grandparents who parent their grandchildren: circumstances and decisions. Gerontologist. 1994 Apr; 34(2):206–216. •Burton LM. Black grandparents rearing children of...
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...community partnerships will be established and or mentioned to build comprehensive, integrated services for children and their families and increase community investments. The fifth goal is that the program that they will strive to strengthen the management systems and provide the support required to expand their services. I will Look, Judge, and Act on the services this company provides for poverty stricken homes and communities. LOOK: Upon entering the center on my first day I was easily fooled by how nice and comforting the staff was and couldn’t wait to return the next day. I was given a tour and introduced to the staff. The first day I stayed there for a few hours and had a great chance of interacting with the kids. I observed the staff with the kids. I...
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...Last summer in 2013, my kids and I went to visit my dad and loving grandparents in a town called homestead near Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. Returning after 12 years of being away, everything looked differently. Many of the stores there seem to be new; there is even a theatre at the waterfront now. Although I have been in this place before everything seem very foreign. I could not help but think that perhaps those things were already there from the gate. As a child my father never let me out the house. I was not allowed to go to the movies or shopping with my friends. I felt alone. My father and I never really got along, we are too much alike, so visiting this summer, I was apprehensive to how my visit would turn out. Upon arrival, my grandparents’ house was first on my itenery. As we approach there house I walk in, to the familiar scent of old wood, moth balls, and ancient drapes filled my nostrils. I walked towards my grandparents, I could still hear cracks of the old wood floor. Childhood memories started to fill my head as enter a cubicle that use to be my room, which now is being occupied by my brothers clothing. My grandparents have 7 bedrooms in there home. My father also lived with them he stayed upstairs in the attic. Living with my father, he insisted on me being upstairs with him right up under his nose, uncomfortable, srunched up, with no privacy. My life with him was so miserable. I was so glad that we were just visiting. Knowing that I was not going to have to re...
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...Kodak 1. Marketing Mix –the 4P’s- Kodak’s pixpro FZ51 is the perfect camera to capture all the special beautiful and happy moments in life. With its perfect slim design, it can be use anywhere and at any time. Captures high quality photos without missing any detail with its 16MP CCD sensor and 5x zoom. (1) Product: Price: $.76.00, $.79.99, $.89.99 Place: www.Amazon.com, Best Buy, Wal-Mart Promotion (1 Ad and 1 Promotion) Add: Promotion: Another great promotion Kodak offers for this camera is that it can take up to 200 pictures without a camera flash drive. (1) This camera’s seller point is its rechargeable battery, no more purchasing of AA’s or AAA’s, which can get quite costly and bothersome. Wal-Mart also offers Kodak PixPro with an 8GB camera flash drive for a total of $.91.29, saving the customer $.4.39 if bough separate. (2) In the past, Kodak has also used movie- themes promotions and sweepstakes prizes by using a variety of media outlets. For example, when Pirates of the Caribbean came out, Kodak EasyShare Gallery offered consumers free movie tickets with a $.20.00 purchase at KodakGallery.com. They also offered a chance to win Kodak products or a trip to Disneyland by an online sweepstakes whom asks consumers to participate in a photo treasure hung. (3) STP: Every business has to focus on all the elements that will affect the company, or a product before putting it in the market. There are 6 elements, which include:...
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...Identical to any kid, my favorite time of the year was Christmas. Unidentical to any kid, I loved Christmas not only for gifts, but as it was the only time my entire family was together. My parents, brothers, cousins, aunts, uncles, grandparents, and friends would gather in my house on Christmas for decadent dinners and gift exchanging. I relished hearing stories from long before I was born from my grandparents and playing video games with distant cousins and family friends. However, it was customary that these eventful nights would come only after Midnight Mass was attended the previous night. The holidays were a time of greater connection between my entire family that was unable to be felt between the usual household of only my parents and...
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...I think of my family as a little dysfunctional I do remember some good times. I remember when I was in the 4th grade (about 9 years old) we lived in West Virginia about 20 min from my grandparents. Every weekend we would go there to have lunch or just to see if my grandparents would need us to do anything for them. On Sunday’s we would all go to church with them, my grandparent are faithful church goers, after church we would meet at my grandparents house to fix a big lunch. Some friends of the family would join us; the kids would play in the yard. I can remember many of the weekends, I would stay to help them, mainly because I didn’t want to home. I remember, one summer we all help build an apartment over their garage for my great grandmother, because she no longer could live by herself. My parents, I mean my mother and step father, was there that weekend to help with the apartment. Around this time in my life my mother and step-father were not getting along that great, usual we never could tell if it was a good or bad day for either of them, but I could always tell when to stay clear of either one of them, it was the looks or the tone that they gave us kids growing up that we knew, stay away. My earlier years, before living close to my grandparent, my parents moved a lot. My family...
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...Claim January 31, 2009 GRANDPARENTS ASSUME NEW ROLE IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY In this assignment I am using the Concomitant Variation of analyzing. Grandparents take on the responsibility for their grandchildren with love, courage and determination that the children should have the best opportunities for healthy and happy lives. What is at stake here? Grandchildren living a normal, happy, and healthy life as did their grandparents. Although alcohol is the drug of choice among teenagers and young adults, drugs and alcohol are the main causes for children being placed with their grandparents. They turn to drugs and alcohol because of their desires to feel wanted and needed, the lack of attention given to them because of their economic situation, both parents having to work to make ends meet, parents divorcing because they can’t cope, feeling abandoned or that they are the cause of the divorce, young mothers sleeping around because of their abuse of alcohol and drugs and not knowing who the father is. This causes their children to loose the sense of what a family is all about. Most people have not paid attention to what causes a lot of this. They have enough problems to find solutions for without adding to them. Trauma, job market, low pay, few raises or promotions all are contributing factors. There is no way possible to completely control all of these factors. In the United States, the number of grandparents raising kids has climbed 30% since 1990...
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...America and quickly found it not to their liking. The grandfather felt in America “the older you are, the more inferior you grow” and felt he was already too old to adjust to their new life. The grandparents brought with them the traditions and teachings of China, and expected their grandchildren to be raised an act in the traditional Chinese...
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...In the book The Other Wes Moore the author, who is an accomplished writer, U.S. Marine, fine athlete, graduate of Johns Hopkins University and Oxford University, a one time White House Fellow, Rhode Scholar, a happily married man who traveled the world, is looking back into his troubled childhood trying to figure out what made him the man he’s become and prevented him from going down the path that so many young men with the same background, have taken. The question of what made the difference in the author’s life was provoked by the small article Wes Moore read in the local Baltimore newspaper. The article described the events of the robbery that left a security guard dead. By coincidence, one of the criminal’s name was Wes Moore, the same name the author has. “…I was struck by the superficial similarities between us, of course: we’d grown up at the same time, on the same streets, with the same name…”(xii). The convicted Wes was analyzing both of the life stories as well. He said: “…From everything you told me, both of us did some pretty wrong stuff when we were younger. And both of us had second chances. But if the situation or the context where you make the decisions don’t change, then second chances don’t mean too much…”(66). To that Wes the writer answered: “…I guess it’s hard sometimes to distinguish between second chances and last chances…”. In my essay I will refer to the writer as “Fortunate Wes” and refer to the convicted criminal as “Unfortunate Wes”. It is nearly...
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...grandchildren you are likely to have. In the 1900s you averaged 12.1 grandchildren versus the 6 or fewer grand children you would have in the 1990s Also it is more likely in black and Hispanic households to be raising your children while also being a grandparent. Grandparents whose children moved to another country are no able to see their grandchildren but if you live in the same country you are more likely to see and interact with your grandparents. Another factor of grand parenting is at what age you become one the younger you are the more active you are in the lives of your grandchildren. My grandfathers are both deceased and I have no distinct memories of either in my life as a child but I do remember when my mother’s father was starting to have alzheimer and the day of his funeral. My grandmothers are 20 years apart in age and I saw my younger grandma more as a child and as an adult than my other grandma. I love them both the same but I have more memories with one over the other. The Strengths of Apache Grandmothers In the American way of life grandparents are important but if they do not want to take a very active role in the lives of their grandchildren they don’t have to. In the American Indian way of life grandparents have a big responsibility and are expected to play a major role in the raising of their grandchildren. These grandmothers take on the role of caregiver and provider. If death occurs the child is then either taken in to the closest family’s home or...
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...adolescence. In M. E. Bernal & G. P. Knight (Eds.), Ethnic identity: Formation and transmission among Hispanics and other minorities (pp. 61-79). New York, NY: State University of New York Press.In this paper I will be writing my reaction about a Native American twelve year old girl named Jane. Jane lives with her family that includes her mother, two younger sisters, and her maternal grandparents. Her parents are divorced and her father lives in another city. The father sees his daughter only once a year for a weekend when he works the rodeo. She practices many of the customs that the mother and grandparents did when they were raised on the reservation. Jane fluently speaks their native language along with English which she has learned since she was a toddler. She is a good student who likes to read books in English, and hopes to go to college one day. Her immediate family speaks their ancestral language. Some of the Native American and White kids in school call her racial names like “school girl” and “apple. Those who are in her classrooms treat her quite well. Some of the Native American kids object to her not participating enough with her cultural...
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...Child Welfare Heidi Newman Argosy University Abstract I am doing research on child welfare, I am going to talk about how many children are maltreatment, neglect, how many children entering foster care, exiting foster care, the age of children that are in foster care, and how many children live with their grandparents. I am going to show a graph with data from 2002-2012 in New York State and compare it national statistics, about child welfare. I am also going to write up a report about talking about my data and graph. [pic] |Victims of maltreatment in 2012 in New York |compare to national statistics | |Number |68,375 |national |670,340 | | | | | |statistic | | | | |New York 2002 |15,432 |national |299,132 | | | | | |statistics | | | | |New York 2002 |17,970 |national ...
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...habits- Germán decides to teach them a lesson. He stages an elaborate plan to convince the kids that their assets have been frozen and that warrants for fraud and embezzlement are out for their arrest. They hide out in their grandparents (very) old and run-down house and are living with no money. Germán suggests for them to get jobs and make an income so that they can afford to eat. Carlos...
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...week. So, children hardly have any time to spend with their parents during their childhood. According to a recent survey, there are more than 61 million (equal to the whole population of the United Kindom) stay-at-home children in China. 57.2% of them are taken care of by one of their parents, but for 42.8% of them, both parents are absent. Of the children living without their parents, 79.7% of them are taken care of by their grandparents,13% are cared for by the parents’ friends or relatives, and for 7.3% of them it is not known who is taking care of them. As we all know, an adult’s care is important to children. Without parents to take care of them, the mental health status of the stay-at-home children may be a big hidden trouble in the future. Some people think these children still have grandparents or relatives taking care of them. However, their grandparents also need to do farm work, and they lack the energy to take care of the children. As for their relatives, they also have children, and, normally, in rural areas, each family has at least two kids. The relatives would not have the energy to take care of all of the children. I figure that there are three ways to help solve this problem. The first is to promote rural area economy development. The most...
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...I am a native american who was born and raised in Hartford, SD. My long term goal is to go to college and get a degree in construction engineering technology. I am still a freshmen in high school but I am taking intro in design. A couple of years ago I could not see myself were I am know. I moved for the country to the town Hartford. I did not have a dad growing up. It was hard because my mom had to work to jobs at one point and we had to live with my grandparents. It was not easy when I asked my mom were my dad is. An every boyfriend that she had would be mean. But when I thought I would never see my mom smile she meet my new dad every thing got better. He adopted me and we got out of my grandparents house. But I told my mom that everything...
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