Legally Extending the Family

An Event History Analysis of Grandparent Visitation Rights Laws

Bibliographic Data

ID2345849
AuthorsTwyla J Hill (Wichita State University, corresponding author)
Year2000
Volume21
Issue2
Pages246-261
Publication date2000-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Family Issues (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0192-513X • E-ISSN: 1552-5481
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/019251300021002006
OpenAlexW2008129658
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited14

This article examines the structural forces influencing the enactment of grandparent visitation rights statutes. Cox regression is used to analyze demographic changes, social change, state litigiousness, and regional proximity as factors affecting timing of first enactment. States with higher proportions of people of grandparent age, of minor grandchild age, and higher levels of urban residence were more likely to enact than were other states. States with higher divorce rates and higher numbers of neighboring states that previously had enacted or enacted during the same year were less likely to enact than were other states. This project illustrates the need for more empirical testing of the influence of structural variables on the enactment of family policy

Demographic change · Demographic economics · Developmental psychology · Economics · Grandchild · Grandparent · Political science · Population · Relocation · Residence · Sociology · Statute · Demography · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Law · Psychology · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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