Grandparents and the legal process

Douglas, Gillian; Lowe, Nigel Vaughan

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“…Under the current law (Children Act, 1989), any person (not just a grandparent) who wishes to maintain a contact with the child has to apply to the court to request a leave to seek an order for contact with the child. Grandparents can make an application for contact if and only after the court grants them that permission (Douglas & Lowe, 1990). …”

Section: State-sponsored Family Support In the United Kingdom But Thementioning

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Filling the Parenting Gap? Grandparent Involvement With U.K. Adolescents

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Buchanan

Flouri

et al. 2010

Journal of Family Issues

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With people living longer and more mothers working, there is some evidence that grandparents are more involved in rearing the next generation. Although there is research in the United Kingdom on kinship care, there is no national research on the extent of grandparent involvement from the perspective of young people. This, the first national survey of 1,478 adolescents in England and Wales, demonstrates the very considerable amount of informal care given by grandparents to adolescents. The findings showed that factors in the wider ecology of children, their parents, grandparents, and the community influenced grandparent-grandchild involvement. In particular, more regular contact and stronger grandparent/grandchild closeness, greater parental encouragement to visit grandparents, better health in grandparents, and less deprivation in the community were significantly associated with more active grandparent involvement. The article concludes that because grandparents may be filling the parenting gap for hard-working parents, there is a case for greater recognition of their role as family supporters.

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Section: State-sponsored Family Support In the United Kingdom But Thementioning

confidence: 99%

Filling the Parenting Gap? Grandparent Involvement With U.K. Adolescents

Tan

Buchanan

Flouri

et al. 2010

Journal of Family Issues

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“…In Britain, the 1989 Children Act, which highlights the interests of children, also allows any person (not just grandparents or relatives) to request a leave to seek an order for contact with a child (Douglas & Lowe, 1990;Crook, 1994). When deciding whether to grant a leave the court will consider the "nature of the order sought, the applicant's connection with the child, any risk of disrupting the child's life if the application proceeded and, where the child is being looked after by a local authority, the authority's plans for the child and the wishes and feelings of the child's parents" (Douglas & Lowe, 1990, p. 103).…”

Section: Grandparent Contact Laws In the United States And Britainmentioning

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The Impact of Parental Separation/Divorce on Grandparent-Grandchild Relationships

Drew

Smith

1999

Int J Aging Hum Dev

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Eighty-six members of the Grandparents' Federation in Britain returned questionnaires about changes in contact with their grandchildren following parental divorce; ten grandparents were also interviewed to obtain more contextual information and measures of health and coping strategies. Three questionnaire measures of the grandparent-grandchild relationship, proximity, contact frequency, and emotional involvement, were interrelated and a significant decrease was reported after parental divorce. There were no significant differences on these measures between grandparents all of whose grandchildren were affected by parental divorce, and grandparents for whom only some grandchildren were so affected; but the latter group did show a greater decline in emotional involvement and also had less recourse to legal action to sustain contact. With grandchildren affected by parental divorce, proximity to grandparents was not significantly less than for grandchildren not so affected, but contact and emotional involvement were significantly less. Many grandparents reported emotional and physical health problems related to the loss of contact. Results are discussed in terms of the extent to which grandparents are victims of the divorce situation, or agents involved in cross-generational family dysfunction; the victim model appears to get more support from our data. Recommendations are made for further research, as well as counseling to help move grandparents through the grief process and to a better quality of life.

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The Courts’ Powers in Family Proceedings

Freeman¹

1992

Children, Their Families and the Law

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Grandparents and the legal process

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Filling the Parenting Gap? Grandparent Involvement With U.K. Adolescents

Filling the Parenting Gap? Grandparent Involvement With U.K. Adolescents

The Impact of Parental Separation/Divorce on Grandparent-Grandchild Relationships

The Courts’ Powers in Family Proceedings

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