{"id":3202,"date":"2017-02-26T19:38:09","date_gmt":"2017-02-26T19:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/childandfamilyblog.com\/?p=3202"},"modified":"2024-05-11T22:33:48","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T21:33:48","slug":"grandparents-resource","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/childandfamilyblog.com\/grandparents-resource\/","title":{"rendered":"Grandparents may be a resource in families with less well-off parents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A study involving over 27,000 people in 10 countries has found that children are more likely to succeed in education if their grandparents are better educated and better off financially.<\/p>\n<p>The link is stronger if the children\u2019s parents of the children are lacking in financial and\/or education, suggesting that grandparents may be providing substitute support in some less-wealthy families.<\/p>\n<p>This research suggests that practitioners who work with vulnerable families should assess grandparents\u2019 as well as parents\u2019 resources.<\/p>\n<p>The picture is mixed across countries and doesn\u2019t correlate with known differences in culture and welfare provision \u2013generating a bit of a mystery for future social researchers to figure out!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In Denmark, Germany and Israel, both grandparents\u2019 education and financial resources correlate with a child\u2019s educational achievement.<\/li>\n<li>In Sweden, Netherlands, Belgium and Slovenia, there is no correlation.<\/li>\n<li>In Italy, there is a correlation only with grandparents\u2019 financial resources.<\/li>\n<li>In the Czech Republic and Luxembourg, there is a correlation only with grandparents\u2019 education.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"retrofit-references\">\n<h4>References<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 1.8em;\"><em> Deindl C &amp; Tieben N\u00a0(2016), <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/jomf.12382\/abstract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Resources of grandparents: Educational outcomes across three generations in Europe and Israel<\/a>, Journal of Marriage and Family<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study of over 27,000 people in 10 countries has found children likely to do better in education if their grandparents are better educated and better off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":3205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5779],"tags":[32,341,25,39],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/childandfamilyblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3202"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/childandfamilyblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/childandfamilyblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childandfamilyblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childandfamilyblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3202"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/childandfamilyblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18127,"href":"https:\/\/childandfamilyblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3202\/revisions\/18127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childandfamilyblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/childandfamilyblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childandfamilyblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childandfamilyblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}