Word: yorks
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...children that they're really integral," says Sally Newman, executive director of Generations Together at the University of Pittsburgh. "The parents should encourage frequent visits and not make the grandparents feel intrusive." And spending time together is essential, says Yaffa Schlesinger, who teaches sociology of the family at New York City's Hunter College. "If relationships are to be meaningful, they have to be deep in time. You cannot be friends with someone you met yesterday...
...gone to camp with one--sometimes two--of his grandchildren. "The food is terrible, the beds are bad, there are no televisions or radios, but, man, you just feel good!" Stearman says. The weeklong Grandparent-Grandchild Summer Camp, founded by Arthur Kornhaber, in the Adirondack Mountains of New York, is one of many intergenerational programs launched in recent years. Elderhostel, which organizes learning vacations for seniors, has seen the adult enrollment in its intergenerational programs in the U.S. shoot up, from 251 in 1990 to nearly 3,300 in 1999. Stearman explains the allure: "It's a general immersion into...
...With reporting by JeanneDeQuine/Miami, Maureen Harrington/Denver, Anne Moffett/Washington, Chandrika Narayan/Dallas and Megan Rutherford/New York...
...parental incarceration, as well as death of a parent from illness, accident, suicide or murder. By far the most common reasons are parental abuse of drugs and alcohol--and, increasingly, aids. Factor into that the rising numbers of single-parent families and, says Herbert Stupp, commissioner of the New York City department for the aging, "the chances for any one child of being raised by someone other than [his or her] parent are higher than they used...
...welfare assistance or legal custody, enrolling kids in school or getting medical care. "The underlying problem is that they don't understand what their rights are and nobody can tell them," says Gerard Wallace, director of the Grandparent Caregiver Law Center at the Brookdale Center on Aging in New York. There is little in law books to help; attorneys and social workers are often unsure how existing laws apply...