Study Of Male Grandparents’ Care

More and more grandparents take the responsibility of caring grandchildren.Men and women are different. Male Grandparents provide the same species of grandchildren care as female grandparent. From the life care to material support to the psychiatric care,male grandparents involved in each link of the grandchild care but they invest more time and energy on material support and material support. Along with grandchildren age grow, their demand of life care gradually reduce, material support and spiritual care needs keeping increase.According to the changing trend, ancestor men provide care for grandchildren from increase to decrease. The older male grandparents are more alienated to grandchildren, affected by the physical condition and grandchildren demand, they provide care less for their grandchildren. Young grandparents and grandchildren are more closer, they offer more types of care. Weather old or young male ancestors produced far-reaching influence on grandchildren, especially male grandchildren.To care for children, grandparents have more experience than their parents, The ancestors have sufficient time to provide care for their grandchildren than their parents, in a sense, it can be said is to compensate for the lack of father. Grandparents also think, in the process of providing care for grandchildren, sometimes you to be the father. One of the reasons of male grandparents take care of grandchildren is for love and care provided for his wife, the women grandparents think that taking care of grandchildren and is a task of different ideas.In all of male grandparents’ life, their evaluation of male standard has not changed. Young period ancestors men tend to construct their own family life will become authoritative male, After entering the old age, grandparents men no longer pursue authoritative masculine, they begin to build other types of masculinity. When men ancestor take care of grandchildren to show their careful, thoughtful and women related traits they explanation this for the protection of the family. Protection, take care of the family, maintenance family harmony is one of the old age male construction standard, the performance was not feminine men. Male generational care research deserves further discussion.