About the Author:
Ursula Adler Falk, Ph.D. (Kenmore, NY), is a psychotherapist in private practice and a nursing home consultant. She is the author of a number of books, including On Our Own: Independent Living for Older Persons.
Gerhard Falk, Ph.D., is professor of sociology at the State University of New York College in Buffalo, NY, and the author of many books, including Stigma: How We Treat Outsiders.
From Library Journal:
A timely topic does not always a good book make, and such is the unfortunate case of the Falks' consideration of the perceptions and potential roles of grandparents today (she's a psychotherapist, he a sociologist). In spite of having written several similar titles, both separately and together (Gerhard is the author of Stigma: How We Treat Outsiders; Ursula Adler wrote Ageism, the Aged and Aging in America), the discussions here (including grandparents in the context of history, current social change, and the media) are given too broad, often undocumented, less-than-original observations. In the authors' attempt to be culturally diverse they offer examples of grandparenting drawn from Filipino, African American, and Mexican cultures, among others scant, anecdotal evidence is presented in drawing conclusive statements. Moreover, the wooden style and awkward sentence structure throughout the work are distracting. This book cannot be recommended; more substantial alternatives include Daphne Joslin's Invisible Caregivers: Older Adults Raising Children in the Wake of HIV/AIDS, Geoff Dench's Grandmothers: The Changing Culture, and Lynne M. Casper's Continuity and Change in the American Family. Ellen D. Gilbert, Princeton, NJ
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