Market replacing family : liberal familialism and the decline of grandparental care in Singapore
This paper seeks to explain why there has been a decline in grandparental care in Singapore. I interviewed eight Singaporean grandparents of different genders and races to garner their perspective on childcare arrangements. My findings suggest that although grandparents have become more individualis...
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| author | Lee, Jing Ian |
| author2 | Premchand Dommaraju |
| author_facet | Premchand Dommaraju Lee, Jing Ian |
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| description | This paper seeks to explain why there has been a decline in grandparental care in Singapore. I interviewed eight Singaporean grandparents of different genders and races to garner their perspective on childcare arrangements. My findings suggest that although grandparents have become more individualistic, childcare arrangements are ultimately influenced by parents. Grandparents have also increasingly come to favour childcare centres as an alternative childcare provider and believe that the trend of increasing childcare facilities would continue. Furthermore, care provided by families were still reported to be preferable but it remains to be seen whether such an arrangement would last into the future.
Key Words: Liberal Familialism, Family, Grandparents, Childcare, Singapore |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/700082019-12-10T13:21:56Z Market replacing family : liberal familialism and the decline of grandparental care in Singapore Lee, Jing Ian Premchand Dommaraju School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Family, marriage and women This paper seeks to explain why there has been a decline in grandparental care in Singapore. I interviewed eight Singaporean grandparents of different genders and races to garner their perspective on childcare arrangements. My findings suggest that although grandparents have become more individualistic, childcare arrangements are ultimately influenced by parents. Grandparents have also increasingly come to favour childcare centres as an alternative childcare provider and believe that the trend of increasing childcare facilities would continue. Furthermore, care provided by families were still reported to be preferable but it remains to be seen whether such an arrangement would last into the future. Key Words: Liberal Familialism, Family, Grandparents, Childcare, Singapore Bachelor of Arts 2017-04-07T03:25:41Z 2017-04-07T03:25:41Z 2017 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/70008 en Nanyang Technological University 30 p. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Family, marriage and women Lee, Jing Ian Market replacing family : liberal familialism and the decline of grandparental care in Singapore |
| title | Market replacing family : liberal familialism and the decline of grandparental care in Singapore |
| title_full | Market replacing family : liberal familialism and the decline of grandparental care in Singapore |
| title_fullStr | Market replacing family : liberal familialism and the decline of grandparental care in Singapore |
| title_full_unstemmed | Market replacing family : liberal familialism and the decline of grandparental care in Singapore |
| title_short | Market replacing family : liberal familialism and the decline of grandparental care in Singapore |
| title_sort | market replacing family liberal familialism and the decline of grandparental care in singapore |
| topic | DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Family, marriage and women |
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