- Title
- Challenges faced by grandparents in caring for their grandchildren in Mdlankomo location, Libode, Eastern Cape
- Creator
- Soganga, Aseza
- Subject
- Grandparents as parents Grandchildren -- Care
- Date
- 2019
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Doctoral
- Type
- PhD
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10353/16188
- Identifier
- vital:40692
- Description
- The study aimed to investigate the challenges that older grandparents face in caring for their grandchildren in Mdlankomo Location, Libode, Eastern Cape. The study intended to achieve three (3) objectives: (i) to establish factors that make caregiving of children by their grandparents challenging, (ii) to establish resources that grandparents need to care for their grandchildren and (iii) to establish the availability of resources required by the grandparents to care for their grandchildren and its possible gaps. The study utilized qualitative research approach, and date collection methods used were in-depth interviews, focus group discussion and key informant method. The number of participants was 34 in total consisting of 23 grandparents and 11 key informants. The findings of the study showed that death of children’s own parents; cultural expectations, youth unemployment, abdication of parental responsibilities, youth unemployment, and carelessness of biological parents were the major reasons for grandparents to care for their grandchildren. The study findings also revealed that grandparents in this caregiving experience both benefits and barriers. The findings further revealed that there are gaps in welfare services, medical services and education. Therefore, the researcher recommended that, those in power should be interested, eager and inquisitive enough about certain aspects that need attention in caregiving of children by their grandparents.
- Format
- 157 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- University of Fort Hare
- Publisher
- Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities
- Language
- English
- Rights
- University of Fort Hare
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