Perceptions of grandparents who provide auxiliary care: value transmission and child-rearing practices

What is it about?

Although it seems to be a general agreement that grandparents are not responsible for the education of grandchildren, it was stressed the importance of getting involved in grandchildren’s socialization process through value transmission, in order to support the role developed by their adult children as educators

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Why is it important?

Grandparents have become an important source of social and financial support in current families, being that the care given and the values transmitted by grandparents are two expressions of family solidarity