African American Grandparents

Summary of the Article; key concepts The Topic relates to African American grandparents turn custodial parents. The key issue is (Cox, 2002) the changes in family structure and changing social condition the role of grandparents in the United States is being redefined and resuming custodial roles in the lives of their grandchildren. Grandmother unique strengths and abilities have to learn in their older years how to take care of the children and themselves. The empowerment was built on the foundation of developing self-efficacy focus on the problems of the population of grandparents in the communities raising their grandchildren. Carol B. Cox the Author describes in this article how the developed of a training program for African American grandparents. (Cox, 2002) The training program empowered the custodial grandparents into becoming well versed in parenting skills and peer educators for the community of grandparents dealing with their own issue of life as well as becoming custodial parents. Forced to take command of their own kid’s, child raising responsibilities. This program takes place in New York City and was developed for empowering a set of courses used in the community curriculum for the grandparents in furthering knowledge in raising the grandchildren. (Cox, 2002) The theory of the grandparents …show more content…
Thus, what if they keep the children and raise them with morals and the parents decide to resume custody of the children. Then the grandparents will continuously be worried about the children safety. Nevertheless, these New York city senior citizens participated in the program started with 14 and completed with for the reason that a few of the grandmothers became ill. The beginning of the classes the grandparents had an open discussion of the issues that was relevant to better evaluate certain