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Renee Ellis
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Changes in coresidence of grandparents and grandchildren

by Renee Ellis, U.S. Census Bureau, Family and Fertility Statistics Branch

Although two-parent families are still the majority family form, families that include grandparents and their grandchildren have been increasing. The concern over the increase of children living with grandparents, particularly in skipped-generation families, where children lived with grandparents without parents present, was large enough to convene a 1992 hearing  to focus on grandparents and spur research investigating the causes.

Susan Brown and I-Fen Lin
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The gray divorce revolution

by Susan L. Brown and I-Fen Lin, Department of Sociology, Bowling Green State University

Broad cultural shifts in the meanings of marriage and divorce suggest that gray divorce could be on the rise. Changing family norms have spread across the generations. The notion that marriage is a lifelong institution has fallen out of favor as there has been a growing emphasis on individual fulfillment and satisfaction through marriage.

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Preschool and Kindergarten Lab Experiences syllabus

Syllabus for San Diego State University CFD 378B Preschool and Kindergarten Lab

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Infant Toddler Lab syllabus

Syllabus for San Diego State University CFD 378A Infant Toddler Lab

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Child, Family and Community Engagement syllabus

Syllabus for San Diego State University CFD 272 Child, Family and Community Engagement

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Parenting Teens and Young Adults syllabus

Syllabus for San Diego State University CFD 353C Parenting Teens and Young Adults

from Zippy Weekly Videos

What is love?

This heartwarming video needs no introduction except to say that there’s a special place in heaven for this dementia patient caregiver.

A Framework for Advancing the Well-Being and Self-Sufficiency of At-Risk Youth

A new report presents a conceptual framework for efforts to prepare at-risk youth for healthy adult functioning and self-sufficiency. Produced as part of the Youth Demonstration Development project for the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, the framework explains how we can build our knowledge about what works for at-risk youth, by implementing and testing research-informed interventions to promote youth’s resilience and human capital. An issue brief summarizes the framework.

Zippy filial piety
from Zippy Weekly Videos

Intergenerational ambivalence

All across the world, there are many people doing their best to care for elders with dementia. Families expend time, money, energy, and emotions caring for someone who, in the words of NCFR Fellow Pauline Boss, is “ambiguously lost” to them. Where do we find the strength? This wonderful short video illustrates the power of family and filial piety.

for CFLEs ONLY

A Review of Three Family- and Patient-Oriented Books on Aging and Caregiving

Reviewed by Marcie Parker, Ph.D., CFLE

Every so often, along comes a book, or in this care a series of small books, that is so well-written, so clear, so well laid out and practical that I cannot help but hope that physicians, PA’s, nurses, geriatric care managers, social workers, hospital discharge planners and just plain members of the general public will offer them as a gift to families caring for older adults or anyone living at home needing care from family members.