PSY BEH 101D Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Mexican Americans, Psy, Helicopter Parent

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Psychology and Social Behavior
• Course: PSY BEH 101D
• Professor: Jodi Anne Quas

Document Summary

Grandmothers have more contact with grandchildren than grandfathers. Define their role as grandmothers as part of their responsibility for maintaining ties. Three prominent meanings attached to being a grandparent: Source of emotional self-fulfillment, generating feelings of companionship and satisfaction that may have been missing in earlier adult-child relationships. Different functions in different families, ethnic groups and cultures, and situations: Study: white, african american, and mexican american grandparents and grandchildren, mexican american grandparents saw their grandchildren more frequently, provided more support, and had more satisfying relationships. Divorce, adolescent pregnancies, and drug use by parents are the main reasons that grandparents are thrust back into the parenting . One contribution of great-grandparents is to transmit family history by telling their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren where the family came from, what their members achieved, what they endured, and how their lives changed over the years. Parents who live vicariously through their children includes a decline in marital satisfaction after children leave the home.