Addressing the Needs of African American Grandparents: An Intersectionality Perspective

This study seeks to demonstrate the intersecting structural and compounding challenges African American custodial grandparents experience collectively, rather than as separate non-competing factors, which has been modeled in prior studies. Using a mixed-method research design, explored faced by white grandparents. These included difficulties attaining different types of support, respite care, programs for teens special needs grandchildren. Results showed that caregiving among Americans were more pervasive their White counterparts. findings have significant implications development intervention grandmothers