The experience of grandparenting: between vital compensation, paradoxes, emotional dilemmas and intergenerational conflicts

Grandparenting is the participation of grandparents in the processes of upbringing or care for their grandchildren, either in a central or peripheral manner. Being preceded by the proper exercise of maternity and paternity, this experience requires revealing the emotional connotation given by the co...

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Main Authors: Alba Lucía Marín-Rengifo, María Cristina Palacio-Valencia
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Universidad del Valle 2015-10-01
Series:Prospectiva
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Online Access:https://revistaprospectiva.univalle.edu.co/index.php/prospectiva/article/view/3857
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description Grandparenting is the participation of grandparents in the processes of upbringing or care for their grandchildren, either in a central or peripheral manner. Being preceded by the proper exercise of maternity and paternity, this experience requires revealing the emotional connotation given by the contemporary familistic ideology in order to highlight the paradoxes and emotional dilemmas that provide the intergenerational conflicts with content. This view involves the background of a social imaginary around spoiling kids but with a vital compensation component in the distinction between upbringing and care. Here lies the meaning of crossing times in the process of upbringing and caring for the younger generation.
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title The experience of grandparenting: between vital compensation, paradoxes, emotional dilemmas and intergenerational conflicts
title_full The experience of grandparenting: between vital compensation, paradoxes, emotional dilemmas and intergenerational conflicts
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title_short The experience of grandparenting: between vital compensation, paradoxes, emotional dilemmas and intergenerational conflicts
title_sort experience of grandparenting between vital compensation paradoxes emotional dilemmas and intergenerational conflicts
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