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Since the beginning of the eighties, there has been a steady rise in the number of studies concerned with grandchild-grandparent relations. Most of the studies have been carried out in the US , but there are studies from Europe as well. Direct cross-cultural comparisons have been peculiarly rare, however, with the exception of Apple’s (1956) anthropological analysis and McCready’s (1985) article which compared Americans of, among others, Scandinavian and Polish origin. Nahemow (1984) compared two traditional societies in Africa.
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Hurme, H. (1995). Collectivism, Individualism and Grandchild-Grandparent Relations. In: Heikkinen, E., Kuusinen, J., Ruoppila, I. (eds) Preparation for Aging. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1979-9_22
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