Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ358901
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1987
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Marital Instability and the Changing Kinship Networks of Grandparents.
Johnson, Colleen Leahy; Barer, Barbara M.
Gerontologist, v27 n3 p330-35 Jun 1987
Focuses on the effects divorces of children have on the kinship networks of the older generation. Found a common source of expansion among paternal grandmothers who retained relationships with their former daughters-in-law and her relatives at the same time that they added new relatives with sons' remarriages. (Author/ABB)
Descriptors: Divorce, Grandparents, Interpersonal Relationship, Kinship, Marital Instability, Older Adults, Remarriage, Social Networks
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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