Parenting for the Second Time

Parenting may be the first challenge, but many parents are raising their children a second time. This time is grandparents of children. In case of problems such as drug abuse, abuse or neglect, imprisonment, HIV / AIDS, psychosis, divorce, death, grandparents can play a parent role for their children. (Dolbin - MacNab, 2006, 1 page) Grandparents usually do not expect to become parent again. This is when most people enjoy the freedom of discovery.

The demand for the second parenting role has brought about an unplanned struggle that brought about financial, emotional, physical, social and legal issues that these grandparents did not experience the time to bring up their children It was. "In the 1997 census, it was revealed that 33% of grandparents are under 50, 48% are between 50 and 64, and 19% are over 65." (1998 National Resource Loss Crisis Management service center

It is important to remember that by examining the generation at some point, we do not even compare parents and grandparents or even their children. Today 's second - generation adult parents are generally not immigrants today. By contrast, today's second generation adult parents usually enter the country decades ago and in most cases either have either died or have retired. The same applies to adults of "third generation or higher" who started their lives at least decades ago 43. From the 2011 data, you can see how the past waves are. do it. They can not tell us whether today's immigrant descendants follow the same pattern.

When they became their second parents, grandparents had both strengths and challenges. They have more wisdom and knowledge, time and appreciation - they have less energy, more disciplinary problems, and are faced with generational gaps (Dunifon, 2013). In the later stages of life there may be a dual role for negotiations and their own identity issues and indignation (Backhouse & Graham, 2012). Individuals over the age of 65 tend to play an official parenting role, but the grandparents of the "searcher" are young and maintain an informal and interesting relationship with their grandchildren. The second group of young grandparents can be described as having a compassionate but distant relationship (see Thomas, Sperry, and Yarbrough, 2000). The involved grandparents may have a positive impact on the lives of their children.