Grandmothers At Work: Juggling Families And Jobs

While all of the grandmothers in Harrington Meyer's book are pleased to spend time with their grandchildren, many are readjusting work schedules, using vacation and sick leave time, gutting retirement accounts, and postponing retirement to care for grandchildren. Some simply want to do this; others do it in part because they have more security and flexibility on the job than their daughters do at their relatively new jobs. Many are sequential grandmothers, caring for one grandchild after the other as they are born, in very intensive forms of grandmothering. Some also report that they are putting off retirement out of economic necessity, in part due to the amount of financial help they are providing their grandchildren. Finally, some are also caring for their frail older parents or ailing spouses just as intensively. Most expect to continue feeling the pinch of paid and unpaid work for many years before their retirement.

• | Author: Madonna Harrington Meyer
• | Publisher: Nyu Press
• | Publication Date: May 02, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 293 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0814729479
• | ISBN-13: 9780814729472