Grandparenting in Divorced Families.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Grandparenting in divorced families Neil Ferguson with Gillian Douglas, Nigel Lowe, Mervyn Murch and Margaret Robinson, Policy Press, Bristol, UK, 2004

So often, divorce research focuses on parents and children without examining the ripples that flow throughout the wider kinship structure of families after divorce. Grandparenting in divorced families sheds light on the complexity of these ripples, and is couched in a long tradition of scholarship from the Cardiff University Law School in the United Kingdom,

As suggested by the title, the book is about grandparents whose sons or daughters have divorced. It focuses specifically on how divorce affects the …