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The Gerontologist, Vol 35, Issue 3 386-394, Copyright © 1995 by The Gerontological Society of America

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"To grandmother's house we go": health and school adjustment of children raised solely by grandparents

JC Solomon and J Marx
Department of Sociology, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC 29733, USA.

This study uses data from the 1988 National Children's Health Supplement (N = 17,110) to the National Health Interview Survey to examine the health and school adjustment of children raised solely by grandparents. We find that these children fare quite well relative to children in families with one biological parent present, a category which includes both single-parent and blended families. Furthermore, children raised solely by grandparents are not significantly different, except for academic performance, from children raised in traditional families where two biological parents are present.


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