TY  - UNPB
N2  - Background: There is global recognition that grandparents taking on primary care of
grandchildren is an increasing phenomenon. Whilst this has benefits, kinship carers also
navigate myriad losses.
Aims: To explore the literature as it pertains to different types of loss in three key roles
and consider implications for support for these families and for society as a whole.
Methods: PsycINFO and Ovid databases were used to identify 31 English language, peer
reviewed papers from the past 30 years.
Results: Feelings associated with grief and loss were found to be common across
kinship family roles.
Discussion: There are many gaps in existent research, particularly with regard to kinship
children and birth parents, but also pertaining to grandfather-carers, and other minority
groups. Acknowledging that grief is not necessarily defined by actual death, other losses
and intergenerational trauma may be pertinent to kinship families and may need to be
mourned as part of the process of adjustment.
ID  - discovery10205192
UR  - https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10205192/
PB  - UCL (University College London)
M1  - Doctoral
A1  - Swaffield, Sheena
TI  - External battles and internal struggles: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of the lived experience of kinship grandmothers
AV  - public
SP  - 1
Y1  - 2025/02/28/
EP  - 125
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ER  -