A Case Study on The Psychological Effects of Custodial Grandparenting on Left-Behind Children
Keywords:
Custodial grandparenting, left-behind children, psychological impact, custodial grandparents.Abstract
With the development and reform of social economy, the income of rural farming economy cannot or is not enough to maintain the basic living expenses of the family, leading to a large number of farmers leave their hometown to go out for work. As a result, there is a special group of left-behind children, most of whom are partly taken care of by their grandparents as family caregivers which we call custodial grandparents or grandparent caregiver. Custodial grandparents are responsible not only for the lives of these left-behind children, but also for their education. Usually, we refer to the education of left-behind children by custodial grandparents as "Custodial Grandparenting". Custodial grandparenting has a profound influence on the hearts and behaviors of left-behind children. Adopting literature method, interview method, observation method and other research methods to analyze the case, this paper mainly studies the psychological effects and tries to propose solutions.
The of this case are two children in Mace Village, Yicheng County, Linfen City, Shanxi Province. The purpose of this paper is to understand the psychological impact of Custodial grandparenting on left-behind children, and to intervene in this problem, through the study of the current situation to find problems and put forward corresponding suggestions and countermeasures.
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