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Journal articles on the topic "Grandchild care"
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Tang, Dan, Jie Qiu, and Kun Zhang. "The Effects of Grandchild Care on Mental Health Among Chinese Elderly: The Mediating Effects of Social Networks." Innovation in Aging 4, Supplement_1 (December 1, 2020): 349. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.1122.
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Abstract Using the data of 2014 baseline survey of the China Longitudinal Aging Social Survey (CLASS), which provides a sample of older Chinese who had grandchild younger than 18 years old, this study examines the associations among grandchild care, social networks, and depressive symptoms among Chinese older adults. The older adults are divided into three groups basing on the frequency of their behaviors of taking care of grandchildren. The three groups are ‘no care, providing care occasionally, providing care frequently’. The mediating and moderating effects of social networks between grandchild care and depressive symptoms are tested. Results show that older adults who provide grandchild care report superior social networks and better mental health than those who don’t provide grandchild (reference group). After controlling the related variables, the older adults who provide grandchild occasionally benefit more than those who take care of grandchild frequently. Grandchild care is related to larger social networks, and the social networks are fully mediating the association between grandchild care and depressive symptoms.
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Park, Aely. "Longitudinal Patterns of Grandchild Care in South Korea." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 3 (January 20, 2022): 1136. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19031136.
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This study examined the longitudinal patterns of grandchild care to observe the influence of factors related to social participation, financial support to grandparents, demographic characteristics, and family structure on classifying the grandchild care. The rate of grandparent care for grandchildren was increasing, and the amount of time commitment for grandchild care was large in South Korea. Understanding how grandchild care unfolds over time and who is likely to provide ongoing grandchild care helps to advance the knowledge about grandparents providing grandchild care. The total sample consisted of 333 South Korean grandparents derived from the 3 waves of nationally representative data. This study utilized growth mixture modeling to identify latent classes of longitudinal patterns of grandchild care, and ran a multinomial logistic regression to examine the relationships between factors related to grandparents, adult children, and family structure and the identified latent classes. Grandchild care was classified into one of three categories: low-level decrease, high-level decrease, and low-to-high increase. Grandparents in the group of low-to-high increase were more likely to have higher financial dependence on adult children and have lower social participation than grandparents in other groups. Findings indicate that there are distinct subgroups among grandparents who care for their grandchildren. Additionally, those in the three classifications varied according to financial support received from adult children, social participation, and personal and family structure. Our findings inform policymakers to provide older adults a means to maintain their self-sufficiency. The community needs to provide programs and resources for working parents on behalf of grandchild care.
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Wang, Shuangshuang, and Jan E. Mutchler. "The Implications of Providing Grandchild Care for Grandparents’ Marital Quality." Journal of Family Issues 41, no. 12 (July 5, 2020): 2476–501. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0192513x20934845.
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This study distinguished among types of grandchild care (i.e., co-residence, high and low levels of babysitting, and no care), and examined their associations with grandparents’ marital quality. The sample consisted of 7,267 married grandparents aged 40 years and over from the 2008, 2010, and 2012 waves of the Health and Retirement Study. Providing grandchild care generally undermined grandparents’ marital quality; however, different types of grandchild care affected different aspects of marital quality. The negative effects of providing grandchild care were more pronounced among grandmothers than grandfathers. Grandmothers providing high-level babysitting care were at especially higher risk of experiencing marital strain among the caregiver groups. Findings suggest that providing grandchild care appears to be more of a stressor than a source of reward with respect to shaping grandparents’ marital quality. Sensitivity to such impact on marital quality may be usefully incorporated into developing supports and services meant for grandparent caregivers.
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Bui, Cindy N. "RETURNING THE FAVOR: EXPECTATIONS OF CAREGIVING RECIPROCITY AND DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS AMONG GRANDPARENTS." Innovation in Aging 3, Supplement_1 (November 2019): S840. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.3094.
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Abstract This study draws upon social capital and intergenerational reciprocity concepts to better understand how grandparents’ depressive symptoms are related to their provision of grandchild care, within the context of their expectations regarding adult children reciprocating caregiving needs in the future. Analyses used the 2014 Health and Retirement Study dataset. The sample consisted of 9,612 grandparents, 2,595 of whom were providing grandchild care. Linear regression models were used to analyze how depressive symptoms were influenced by grandchild care provision and expectations of future care from adult children. Future care is measured as expectations from (1) any adult child, and (2) from the same adult child for whom the older parent provides grandchild care. Provision of grandchild care was not significantly related to grandparents’ number of depressive symptoms. Among grandparents who provided grandchild care, both expecting any adult child and expecting the same adult child were associated with reporting fewer depressive symptoms. Expecting any adult child to provide future care showed a stronger effect than expecting the same adult child to provide future care. The results suggest that expectations of general reciprocity within the family system, rather than specific dyadic reciprocity, may be more important for a caregiving grandparent’s emotional well-being. Providing grandchild care while expecting future care from adult children can indicate a sense of social capital within an intergenerational family system. Expecting support reciprocity from adult children may be a protective factor that allows caregiving grandparents to feel more secure about their future care needs, and consequently, less depressed.
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KIM, HYE JIN, TRACEY A. LAPIERRE, and ROSEMARY CHAPIN. "Grandparents providing care for grandchildren: implications for economic preparation for later life in South Korea." Ageing and Society 38, no. 4 (November 21, 2016): 676–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0144686x16001215.
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ABSTRACTMounting concern about economic preparation for later life combined with a growing number of grandparents providing grandchild care is fuelling increased interest in these topics in Korea. However, few studies have evaluated the relationship between providing care to grandchildren and economic behaviour. Guided by intergenerational exchange theory, this paper analyses the relationships between providing grandchild care and monetary compensation for care, and economic preparation for later life. Data come from a sub-sample of 2,599 grandmothers in the Korean Retirement and Income Study who have a grandchild under the age of ten, 279 of whom report providing regular care to grandchildren. Controlling for age, education, marital status and household income, the average amount of grandchild care provided per week is a significant negative predictor of economic preparation for later life among grandmothers. However, receiving financial compensation for providing grandchild care is not significantly related to economic preparation and did not mediate or moderate the relationship between amount of care provided and economic preparation. The implications of these findings and limitations of this study are also discussed.
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Kim, Kyoung Min, Jung Jae Lee, and Un Sun Chung. "Perceived Health Status of and Moderating Factors in Elderly People Caring for Their Grandchildren." Psychiatry Investigation 17, no. 4 (April 15, 2020): 275–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.30773/pi.2019.0115.
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Objective Situations in which elderly people are the primary caregivers for their grandchildren are becoming more common. This study aimed to investigate moderating factors of and the association between grandchild care and the grandparents’ perceived health. Financial support in return for grandchild care was also investigated as a moderating factor.Methods Participants included 357 elderly people over the age of 60 years. The assessment to evaluate the perceived health status and social support was performed via a questionnaire. It included questions regarding the care of grandchildren and demographic variables, as well as the Medical Outcome Survey (MOS) 36-item short-form health survey (SF-36), and the MOS Social Support Survey (MOS-SSS).Results The subscale scores of SF-36 and MOS-SSS did not differ significantly for grandchild-care status. However, the subscale scores of SF-36 were significantly higher in groups that received regular financial support from adult children in return for grandchild care than in groups that did not.Conclusion Our data suggest that regular financial support in return for grandchild care may be a moderating factor in the association between grandchild care and the perceived health status of elderly people. These findings have important social implications and warrant future study to reveal the psychological mechanism of these associations and enhance the health of elderly individuals.
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Quirke, Eleanor, Hans-Helmut König, and André Hajek. "Association between caring for grandchildren and feelings of loneliness, social isolation and social network size: a cross-sectional study of community dwelling adults in Germany." BMJ Open 9, no. 12 (December 2019): e029605. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-029605.
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ObjectiveThe aim of this study was to examine whether there is an association between grandparental care and loneliness, social isolation and/or the size of an individual’s social network among community-based adults aged ≥40 years.MethodsCross-sectional data were drawn from a population-based sample of individuals aged ≥40 years living in the community in Germany. Loneliness was measured using a short version of the De Jong Gierveld Loneliness Scale. Social isolation was measured using a scale developed by Bude and Lantermann. The number of important people with whom respondents have regular contact (ie, social network size) was also used as an outcome variable. All respondents were asked whether they privately provide grandparent care (no/yes).ResultsLinear regressions showed reduced loneliness (β=−0.06, p<0.01) and social isolation scores (β=−0.04, p<0.05) among those undertaking care of a grandchild. Regression analysis also showed an increased number of important people with whom individuals had regular contact among those who undertook care of a grandchild (β=1.02, p<0.001).ConclusionFindings indicate a positive association between undertaking the care of a grandchild and the size of an individual’s social network, and a negative association between grandchild care and self-rated scores of loneliness and social isolation. These findings build on existing research into the social and health implications of grandchild care among grandparents. Longitudinal studies are required to strengthen the understanding of this association.
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Hayslip, Bert, and Rebecca J. Glover. "Custodial Grandparenting: Perceptions of Loss by Non-Custodial Grandparent Peers." OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying 58, no. 3 (May 2009): 163–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/om.58.3.a.
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In order to explore the generalizability of perceptions of the losses experienced by grandparents raising their grandchildren, 610 traditional/non-custodial grandparents, who had no custodial responsibility for their grandchildren, read a randomly assigned scenario depicting a grandmother and her grandchild, wherein scenarios varied in terms of grandchild gender, the presence or absence of grandchild problems, and the reason for role assumption. They then completed the Perceptions of Loss (PLS) scale, where higher scores indexed greater awareness of loss. Results suggested that perceptions of loss varied by grandchild gender (favoring females), grandchild problem (favoring those with problems), and the reason for role assumption (favoring parental abandonment and parental drug abuse). Moreover, PLS scores were influenced by the interaction between grandchild gender and reason for role assumption, where the impact of role assumption was greater for female grandchildren than for male grandchildren. These findings in part parallel those obtained from young adults, and generally suggest that others in varying degrees are sensitive to the losses grandparents raising their grandchild experience. Such findings have implications regarding the extent to which grandparent caregivers' grief is disenfranchised, as well as impacting custodial grandparents' feelings of loneliness and isolation from age peers brought about by the necessity to raise their grandchildren.
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Quirke, Eleanor, Hans-Helmut König, and André Hajek. "Does grandchild care affect ageing satisfaction? Findings based on a nationally representative longitudinal study." PLOS ONE 17, no. 3 (March 17, 2022): e0265600. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0265600.
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Objective This study seeks to explore the association between grandchild care and Attitudes Towards Own Ageing, assessing whether the commencement of, or ceasing, grandchild care is associated with changes in grandparents’ perspectives on ageing. Methods Longitudinal data were drawn from a population-based sample of community-dwelling individuals aged ≥40 years in Germany. The Attitudes Toward Own Ageing subscale of the Philadelphia Geriatric Center Moral Scale (PGCMS) was used to measure Attitudes Towards Own Ageing. To determine whether respondents provided grandchild care, respondents were asked “I’d now like to go on to learn more about your activities and pastimes. Do you supervise other people’s children privately, e.g. your grandchildren, or the children of siblings, neighbors, friends or acquaintances?” Symmetric and asymmetric linear fixed effects regressions were used to assess within-person changes longitudinally. Results No statistically significant association between providing care for grandchildren and Attitudes Towards Own Ageing was found. Significant associations were found between Attitudes Towards Own Ageing and employment status. Namely, retirement was associated with more positive Attitudes Towards Own Ageing (β = 0.57, p < .001), as was not being employed (β = 0.57, p < .001). A significant association between self-rated health and Attitudes Towards Own Ageing was also found (β = -0.06, p < .001), with poorer self-rated health associated with more negative Attitudes Towards Own Ageing. Conclusion Our findings suggest that undertaking grandchild care does not shape Attitudes Towards Own Ageing. As our findings did not align with existing evidence on the associations between grandchild caregiving and measures of subjective ageing, further research is required.
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Duan, Haoshu. "The Shape of Care: Patterns of Family Caregiving Among Chinese Adults in the Middle to Later Stage of Life." Innovation in Aging 5, Supplement_1 (December 1, 2021): 794–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.2930.
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Abstract Due to the lack of institutional support, families have long been the primary caregivers in China. Most studies to date only focused on one single care activity during a particular life course stage. Nonetheless, older adults today are more likely to care for multiple family members concurrently or sequentially (serial caregivers). The studies on discrete snapshots of care activities failed to capture the patterns of family caregiving overtime. Utilizing four waves of longitudinal data from CHARLS (2011-2018, N=17,039), this study particularly focuses on care activities to grandchildren, parents, and spouse, and maps out the family caregiving patterns overtime. Using latent profile analysis, this study identifies five family caregiving patterns: 1). Light grandchild caregivers (27%), who on average provided 4.3 years’ grandchild care mostly; 2). Heavy grandchild caregivers (11%), who on average on provided 7 years’ grandchild care mostly; 3). Light caregivers for grandchildren and parents (7%), who sequentially provided 1-year care to grandchildren and parents; 4). Heavy serial caregiver (6%), who mostly provided care to spouse and grandchildren with higher overlapping years; 5). Overall light caregivers (49%), who on average provided less than one year of care to any recipient. The preliminary results suggest that heavy serial caregivers (6%) far worst in terms of depressive symptoms and more likely to report worsened self-rated health; and overall light caregivers (49%) have the lowest depressive symptoms and more likely to report good self-rated health.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Grandchild care"
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Scherer, Kristina Lynn. "Informal Caregiving: Factors Grandmothers Associate With Challenges Of Caring For Their Grandchild(ren)." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1186086575.
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Lambert, Kellene Marie, and Deborah Ann Price. "Parenting the second time around: Voices from the Hispanic community on raising their grandchilden." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2007. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3123.
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This study explores the experiences of Hispanic grandmothers who are parenting a second time around. This study looked at the strengths, needs, services, within their kinship arrangements. Child welfare workers could gain an in-depth understanding in cultural context that could influence their practice and service delivery.
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Tatterton, Michael J., and C. Walshe. "How Grandparents Experience the Death of a Grandchild With a Life-Limiting Condition." 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/18247.
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YesTraditionally, family-focused care extends to parents and siblings of children with life-limiting conditions. Only a few studies have focused on the needs of grandparents, who play an important role in the families of children with illness and with life-limiting conditions, in particular. Interpretative phenomenological analysis was used as the methodological framework for the study. Seven bereaved grandparents participated in this study. Semistructured, individual, face-to-face interviews were conducted. A number of contextual factors affected the experience of bereaved grandparents, including intergenerational bonds and perceived changes in role following the death of their grandchild. The primary motivation of grandparents stemmed from their role as a parent, not a grandparent. The breadth of pain experienced by grandparents was complicated by the multigenerational positions grandparents occupy within the family. Transition from before to after the death of a grandchild exacerbated the experience of pain. These findings about the unique footprint of grandparent grief suggest the development of family nursing practice to better understand and support grandparents during the illness of a grandchild, in addition to bereavement support.
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Tatterton, Michael J., and C. Walshe. "Understanding the bereavement experience of grandparents following the death of a grandchild from a life-limiting condition: A meta-ethnography." 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/18237.
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yesTo increase understanding of grandparental grief following the death of a grandchild from a life-limiting condition. Meta-ethnography. Academic Search Complete CINHAL, Embase, psycINFO, PubMed and Web of Science, supplemented by manual search strategies (in 2015, updated 2018). Studies were appraised and synthesized using the principles of meta-ethnography. Three superordinate themes were identified: 'influence of the relationship with their grandchild', 'influence of the relationship with the grandchild's family' and 'pain'. The simultaneous, multigenerational position of grandparents meant individuals experience emotional pain from witnessing the experience of family members. Many factors that contribute to the bereavement experience of grandparents are outside of their control. The roles, positions, and support needs of grandparents need to be acknowledged to better meet their needs as parents, grandparents, and individuals who have experienced a child death.
Hospice UK, RCN Foundation
Books on the topic "Grandchild care"
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Journals, Keepsakecelebration. Am I Your Favorite Grandchild: Grandparent's Day Themed Alternative Card. Independently Published, 2019.
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Journals, Keepsakecelebration. Behind Every Great Grandchild Are Awesome Grandparents: Child Hand Print Themed Alternative Card for Grandparents. Independently Published, 2019.
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Press, Rocking Reindeer. My Favorite Grandpa Gave Me This Journal: Funny 6x9 Blank Lined Christmas Journal Composition Notebook to Write in / Christmas Card Alternative / Gift from Grandpa to Granddaughter Grandson Grandchild. Independently Published, 2020.
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How To Love An American Man A True Story. Harper Paperbacks, 2011.
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Tsai, Feng-jen, and Tuo-Yu Chen. "Grandchild care and loneliness." In Loneliness and Social Isolation in Old Age, 76–85. London: Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003289012-11.
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Bünning, Mareike, Ulrike Ehrlich, Felix Behaghel, and Oliver Huxhold. "Grandchild Care during the Covid-19 Pandemic." In Ageing in Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic, 165–82. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-40487-1_9.
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"Race and Ethnic Differences in Grandchild Care and Financial Transfers with Grandfamilies: An Intersectional Resource Approach." In Grandparenting in the United States, 25–46. Amityville, New York : Baywood Publishing Company, Inc., [2016]: Routledge, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315231624-7.
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Gawthorpe, Dawn. "Nursing Practice and Decision Making." In Nursing: Decision-Making Skills for Practice. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199641420.003.0015.
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You have already seen in earlier chapters that decision making is the cognitive process of reaching a decision—of considering a number of options from which only one can be chosen. Student nurses need to develop knowledge not only of generic nursing skills, but those related specifically to their chosen field of practice (NMC 2010). So how much knowledge do you need to be a nurse and how do you know when you have acquired it? It is often said that ‘a little knowledge is a dangerous thing’—a saying attributed to Alexander Pope (1688–1744). In nursing terms, this could mean that this small amount of knowledge can potentially mislead you into thinking that you are more competent than you actually are. How much knowledge is required to ensure competency as a qualified nurse is not easily determined, however, because we all learn in different ways and over time. Lifelong learning is advocated for all nurses and, indeed, is a requirement of continued registration (NMC 2011); as a qualified nurse, you will be making decisions on a daily basis for the rest of your working life, which will require you to be aware of best evidence for practice and patient care. The nature of these decisions forms an important part of this chapter and there will be a number of case studies related to all fields of practice for you to consider. It is important that you do not consider and answer only those related to your own field of practice, because you might encounter a situation in which you might have to care for a child or young person on an adult ward in hospital, or during a home visit in the community: for example, a grandparent might suddenly complain of feeling unwell and collapse whilst visiting his or her grandchild on a children’s ward. The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) reminds us that nurses’ decision making must also be shared with service users, carers, and families—that is, that we must work with people to ensure the best and most appropriate decision for their needs at that time (NMC 2010).
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Piñero, Mariana Herrera, Eric Stover, Melina Tupa, and Víctor B. Penchaszadeh. "The Living Disappeared." In Silent Witness, 149–72. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190909444.003.0008.
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This chapter tells the story of the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo, or Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, and their search for more than 500 grandchildren who were kidnapped by the Argentine military or born in captivity during military rule from 1976 to 1983. Most of the parents of these children were executed and buried in clandestine graves, while their children were given to childless military and civilian couples. Hope turned the Abuelas into detectives. Over many years, they examined thousands of pages of public documents, conducted stakeouts, and went undercover in their search for clues to the whereabouts of their missing grandchildren. But sleuthing was easy compared to convincing courts that the children they had located were biologically related to the grandparents who claimed them. In spring 1984, several foreign geneticists came to the aid of the Abuelas. Six months later, the first grandchild was identified on the basis of genetic analysis and returned to her grandmother. DNA sequencing soon followed, and in 1987, the Argentine Congress passed a law establishing the Banco Nacional de Datos Genéticos (National Genetic Data Bank), dedicated exclusively to identifying Argentina’s missing children. To date, 127 stolen children have been identified, most of them based on DNA analysis. While tracing this history, the chapter explores the scientific, legal, and psychosocial challenges that have arisen during the Abuelas’ search for their missing grandchildren.
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Broughton, Chad. "“Sin Maíz, No Hay País”." In Boom, Bust, Exodus. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199765614.003.0010.
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After Three Years of living in the shadows of the United States, Laura Flora Oliveros returned to Mexico in 2004 to reunite with her daughters and her parents in Tierra Blanca, Veracruz. Erika, her youngest, had just turned five and was now strong enough, Flora hoped, to make the arduous border crossing. If everything worked as planned, Flora’s entire family—four generations of them—would be together in central Florida in a couple of weeks. On her second voyage north, Flora’s intuition told her that something was not right. Flora was attuned to the news of rapes and disappearances of hundreds of female migrants and maquila workers at the border, which a United Nations mission had been investigating. Her three daughters dismissed her concerns and begged her to go through with it. Just before the dusk river crossing, and over the girls’ protests, Flora abandoned the trip, forfeiting, for the second time in three years, all her savings to a coyote. “I felt awful about not making the crossing, but I had a foreboding thought. It frustrated all of my plans. My daughters didn’t sense the danger. They were happy, saying ‘Let’s go, Mom! Let’s go!’ ” Right or not, her decision left Flora, her three girls, and her parents penniless, 1,300 miles from her older children in Florida, José and Deysy, and a new grandchild she had yet to hold. They each had a change of clothing and nothing else, stuck at the border with hundreds of thousands of other migrants, who came mostly from Veracruz. Reynosa had become one of the world’s premier meeting places for southern labor and northern capital, the archetypical neoliberal city. And yet nobody outside of the booming city itself seemed to know about it aside from the Veracruzanos who flowed into its slums. In the decade after the 1994 free trade agreement, rural Mexicans headed north in unprecedented numbers. Much of it was internal to Mexico. The channel from Veracruz to Tamaulipas—Reynosa being the main destination—became the busiest internal pathway in the country.