Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- SECTION I: Setting The Stage -- 1 Why Grandchildren Are Going to and Staying at Grandmother's House and What Happens When They Get There -- 2 A Profile of Grandparents Raising Grandchildren in the United States -- SECTION II: The Status of Grandparents -- 3 Physical Health of Custodial Grandparents -- 4 Social Support, Stress, and Special Coping Tasks of Grandmother Caregivers -- 5 Psychological Costs and Benefits of Raising Grandchildren: Evidence From a National Survey of Grandparents -- 6 Risks of Caregiving: Abuse Within the Relationship -- SECTION III: Policy Issues -- 7 Grandparents and Welfare Reform -- 8 Grandparent Caregiving: Legal Status Issues and State Policy -- 9 Planning for Permanence -- SECTION IV: Grandparenting Among Diverse Populations -- 10 Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Orphaned and Affected by HIV/AIDS -- 11 Special Situation of Incarcerated Parents -- 12 Profile of Contemporary Grandparenting in African-American Families -- 13 Culture and Caregiving: A Study of Latino Grandparents -- SECTION V: Services and Interventions -- 14 Support Groups in the Lives of Grandmothers Raising Grandchildren -- 15 Empowering Grandparents Raising Grandchildren -- 16 Grandparents and Schools: Issues and Potential Challenges -- 17 Community Interventions to Support Grandparent Caregivers: Lessons Learned From the Field -- SECTION VI: Conclusions -- 18 Conclusions -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.