Redefining Social Lives
Caring for grandchildren with disabilities often reshapes social lives. The impact of care work on social lives is decidedly mixed. Some grandparents find that there is little impact, in part because they make a point of seeing old friends, traveling, and
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Grandparenting Children with Disabilities
Grandparenting Children with Disabilities
Madonna Harrington Meyer • Ynesse Abdul-Malak
Grandparenting Children with Disabilities
Madonna Harrington Meyer Department of Sociology Syracuse University Syracuse, NY, USA
Ynesse Abdul-Malak Colgate University Hamilton, NY, USA
ISBN 978-3-030-39054-9 ISBN 978-3-030-39055-6 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39055-6
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When he gets to laughing, that is the sweetest sound to me in the whole wide world. And we will laugh sometimes for an hour, and I sometimes don’t even remember what we’re laughing at. We don’t go out as much because we live in an apartment building and we have stairs, and because there’s no ramps and that apartment complex doesn’t want to put in ramps, and because we can’t afford to put in ramps. . .But, it’s his equipment is really heavy, and I have to be the one to carry his equipment down the steps . . .They’re very heavy and I just can’t do it by myself. Connie, age 57, and Andy, age two and one-half, who has cerebral palsy
For Ellen, Maureen, Sam, Tyreke, and Jeff MHM For Leila, Ziad, and Sami YAM
Acknowledgements
We are enormously grateful to each of the 50 grandparents who took time out of their very busy lives to complete interviews with us. They are an especially varied group united by a steely determination to try to provide the best care possible for their grandchildren with disabilities, whatever the impact on their own wellbeing. We are enormously grateful for vital support of graduate students provided by the Syracuse University Aging Studies Institute and the Center for Pol
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