Abstract
Book Review of Garrison, Gary. (2018). Raising Grandkids: Inside Skipped-Generation Families. Regina: University of Regina Press.
Highlights
In “Raising Grandkids”, Gary Garrison takes a deep dive into the unique circumstances and challenges facing families in which children are being raised by their grandparents
Alongside some general discussion of the family dynamics common to these households, he provides in-depth portraits of several families. The biographies he sketches out are drawn from qualitative interviews he conducts with his fellow grandparents-cum-parents
Particular focus is given to Indigenous families, who are disproportionately dealing with family trauma and who are uniquely affected by the intergenerational trauma of family separation policies like residential schools and the lingering effects of colonization more broadly
Summary
In “Raising Grandkids”, Gary Garrison takes a deep dive into the unique circumstances and challenges facing families in which children are being raised by their grandparents. Killeen it was easier for Garrison to get interview subjects to open up to him about their own lives raising their grandchildren knowing that they were speaking to a man going through many of the same experiences.
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