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Because public policy provides relatively little assistance to working parents in the U.S., grandmothers have become an economically important as well as emotionally precious source of child care. In this fascinating study, Madonna Harrington combines quantitative and qualitative research to explore new terrain in the sociology of care. Her sensitive and discerning analysis reveals the circumstances under which grandmothering can become a stressful obligation rather than a voluntary joy. -Nancy Folbre, author, Valuing Children: Rethinking the Economics of the Family

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Madonna Harrington Meyer is Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence and Professor of Sociology at the Maxwell School of Public Affairs at Syracuse University. She is editor of Care Work: Gender, Labor, and the Welfare State and co-author of Market Friendly or Family Friendly? The State and Gender Inequality in Old Age.

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