Grandparental Role in Romanian Transnational Families
Grandparental Role in Romanian Transnational Families

Summary/Abstract: Based on a survey of Romanian older parents (aged 60+ years) with migrant adult children, we investigate how grandchild care is provided in a transnational context. We acknowledge that such downward support can be provided with copresence in a destination country, involving parents’ mobility, or in a home country, providing care to grandchildren whose parent(s) migrated. We adopt the solidarity paradigm, which guides most of the research into the parent–adult child dyad, and investigate how factors at individual, familial and societal levels influence the provision of grandchild care. Characteristics at the individual level (such as younger age and good health of the grandparent and a more stable situation of the migrant) and at the familial level (such as competing family obligations in the home country and contact between grandparents and migrant adult children) are among the most important aspects that shape the provision of grandchild care in transnational families.

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