Market replacing family : liberal familialism and the decline of grandparental care in Singapore

• Main Author: Lee, Jing Ian
• Other Authors: Premchand Dommaraju
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Family, marriage and women
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/70008
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper seeks to explain why there has been a decline in grandparental care in Singapore. I interviewed eight Singaporean grandparents of different genders and races to garner their perspective on childcare arrangements. My findings suggest that although grandparents have become more individualis...