Amazing grace [electronic resource] : African American grandmothers as caregivers and conveyers of traditional values / Dorothy Smith Ruiz ; foreword by Bert Hayslip.
Material type: TextPublication details: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2004Description: xvi, 134 p. : illSubject(s): Grandparents as parents -- United States | African American grandmothersGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 306.874/5/08996073 LOC classification: HQ759.9 | .R85 2004Online resources: Click to ViewIncludes bibliographical references (p. [121]-126) and index.
Introduction -- Slavery, family, and religion : the traditional roles of older African American women in the antebellum south during the nineteenth cerntury -- Related research : grandparent caregiving -- Methodolgy : the custodial African American grandmother study -- Social and demographic characteristics -- Factors influencing life satisfaction among -- Social facrors, health status, and depression -- Voices of custodial grandmothers : dominant themes.
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