Connecting With Shosho
Assessing the Role of Grandmothers in a Low-Income Population in Nairobi, Kenya
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2348640 |
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| Authors | Madhavan (0000-0001-6216-3612, Departments of African American and Africana Studies and Sociology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA, corresponding author), Milka Omuya (African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya), Enid Schatz (0000-0003-3963-2745, Department of Public Health, University of Missouri, Columbia, MD, USA), Caroline Wainaina (0000-0002-3296-3966, African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 946-965 |
| Publication date | 2025-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Family Issues (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0192-513X • E-ISSN: 1552-5481 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0192513x241268701 |
| OpenAlex | W4400996261 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 63 |
A body of scholarship has demonstrated that grandmothers provide critical support to their adult children and grandchildren across Africa. We examine the extent to which grandmothers provide support in a low-income, urban context where grandmothers are employed and do not live in intergenerational arrangements. We (1) describe the composition of living grandparents and the type of support their adult daughters and grandchildren received from them; (2) analyze the extent to which grandmother's employment and residence affect the odds of receiving support; and (3) examine the relationship between support from grandmothers and adult daughters' mental health. We use three waves of data from 1181 young mothers enrolled in the JAMO project, a longitudinal study of family connectivity in Nairobi, Kenya. Logistic regression models show that grandmothers being employed and co-residing significantly increase the odds of daughters receiving support from them and that this support can protect these young mothers' mental health
Demographic economics · Developmental psychology · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Grandparent · Low income · Population · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Demography · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Psychology
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