Through a community study of boys requiring special education for the severely mentally retarded, 12 families were ascertained in which the fragile X was found to be segregating. By assiduous follow up of these families, it was found that in only four of them could male transmission be ruled out from the grandparents' or great grandparents' generation and that the segregation ratios are disturbed.

We examine social mobility patterns over three generations of family members, using data collected in three British birth cohort studies. We show that for both men and women, and for all three birth cohorts, absolute mobility rates (i.e. total, upward and downward mobility rates, and inflow and outflow mobility patterns) in the partial parents–children mobility tables vary substantially by gran...

BACKGROUND Community-based studies have suggested a multigenerational pattern of obesity affecting children's risk of overweight, but no national data have substantiated such a pattern. Our objective was to examine the prevalence of overweight [body mass index (BMI) >or=95th percentile for age and sex] among children aged 5 to 19 in a national sample, stratified by the obesity status of their p...

Because we have only considered situations in which the main care received by a child, other than parental care, is provided by grandparents (a scenario which ignores other situations where grandparents may act as an essential background support), the results suggest that grandparental care does indeed play an important role in determining the probability of women working in our chosen set of c...

In South Africa, there appears to be a paradigm shift where the majority of country’s children are taken care by their grandparents. This article explores states reciprocity existing in grandparent-grandchildren Mdlankomo location, Libode Eastern Cape Africa. The study utilised qualitative approach explore perceptions grandparents on between them and grandchildren. Nine were interviewed. findin...

Increasing numbers of school-age children are being raised by their grandparents. Yet, a dearth of research investigates the children in these families. The few studies suggest the children experience higher levels of academic, behavioral, and emotional difficulties than their peers. These behaviors are often associated with involvement in bullying, but no empirical research investigates bullyi...

Increasingly, grandparents are raising grandchildren because of the absence of the parental generation due to HIV/AIDS in Vietnam. However, few studies have explored the strategies and plans of grandparents for the future care of their grandchildren in case they can no longer provide care. In-depth qualitative interviews were conducted with a purposive sample of 21 grandparent caregivers and se...