Amazing grace

Ruiz, Dorothy S.

Amazing grace African American grandmothers as caregivers and conveyers of traditional values / [electronic resource] : Dorothy Smith Ruiz ; foreword by Bert Hayslip. - Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2004. - xvi, 134 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [121]-126) and index.

Introduction -- Slavery, family, and religion : the traditional roles of older African American women in the antebellum south during the nineteenth cerntury -- Related research : grandparent caregiving -- Methodolgy : the custodial African American grandmother study -- Social and demographic characteristics -- Factors influencing life satisfaction among -- Social facrors, health status, and depression -- Voices of custodial grandmothers : dominant themes.


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Grandparents as parents--United States.
African American grandmothers.


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