Economics Exchange and Support within skip-generation families
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The moving of migrants to developing areas for working while leaving their children with their grandparent caregivers causing the skipped-generation family of two generations, family traits with grandparents and child living together without parental members. This study aims to investigate the occurred exchange support between the grandparent caregivers and the migrants, using the data of research project entitled “Migration and skipped-generation families in Thailand” The qualitative research methodology was used for this study, and collecting data from elder population, the migrants’ grandparent caregivers aged 50 years and over in 3 provinces, Pitsanulok, Khonkean and Kanchanaburi. The data collection was conducted between October and December in 2013 and 42 samplings of households were collected. Content analysis was used with NVivo program for qualitative data analysis.
The findings of the study showed the appearance of two characters of skipped–generation exchanges: 1) Economics exchange in term of financial and materials support 2) Communicating and support exchange in term of times giving to each other between migrants and their grandparents, not only receiving financial support from the migrants, but the grandparent caregivers also devoting time raising their grandchildren with love and willingness. They were proud of doing the tasks and accepted the burden without expectation in term of the amount of financial support. They were only expecting mobile communicating regularly and opportunity of visiting home for the love and care from the migrants, to relief their suffering feelings of loneliness concerning the burden of raising grandchildren, this helped supporting their mental health, and reducing their stress level of raising grandchildren alone.
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