Marital Instability and the Changing Kinship Networks of Grandparents
- 1 June 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Gerontologist
- Vol. 27 (3) , 330-335
- https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/27.3.330
Abstract
The findings focus on the effects divorces of children have on the kinship networks of the older generation. In a sample of white, middle-class families, three years after a child's divorce, 48% of the kinship networks of the grandparents had expanded. A common source of expansion was 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.Keywords
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