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ERIC Number: EJ483919
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1994
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ISSN: ISSN-0009-3920
Young African-American Multigenerational Families in Poverty: Quality of Mothering and Grandmothering.
Chase-Lansdale, P. Lindsay; And Others
Child Development, v65 n2 Apr p373-93 1994
Examined the parenting practices in 99 young, low-income, African American multigenerational families through home-based observations of grandmothers, young mothers, and the mothers' 3-year-old children. Residence with grandmothers was found to have negative consequences on the quality of both mothers' and grandmothers' parenting. (MDM)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Black Mothers, Blacks, Child Rearing, Extended Family, Family Influence, Family Relationship, Grandparents, Parent Child Relationship, Parent Role, Parenting Skills, Poverty, Toddlers
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: African Americans; Grandparent Grandchild Relationship
Note: Special issue on: "Children and Poverty."