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The content presented within this site reflects evidence from local, national and international research with grandparents who have assumed full-time parental responsibility for their grandchildren. Thus, the content tends to be 'problem' oriented since it describes real problems that many grandparents have to contend with when parenting their grandchildren. If you have no particular problems or concerns, then you may not need this site!
Grandcarer: a grandparent who has assumed full-time parental responsibility for their grandchild(ren).
Likewise, while the content writers aim to meet the information needs of a wide range of Grandcarers, the information presented reflects the needs and concerns of ‘average’ Grandcarers who were surveyed, usually at only one point in time. Thus, the information may not reflect the experiences of individual Australian grandparents (or grandchildren). This website is, therefore, not intended as a substitute for individual consultation with an appropriate professional.
Grandfamily: a family whose basic structure includes a grandparent and grandchild(ren) in a parent-child dependent relationship. The family may be headed by a single grandparent or a couple. The description nearly always implies the absence of the child(ren)’s biological parent(s) from the home.
In addition, and in order to keep the information on this website relevant and up-to-date, the content writers have chosen to use links to external sites, particularly to WA state government departmental sites. This means that users of this site will have access to new information when it is released. However, when we do this we will always try to provide an overview of the site's content so that individual users can quickly locate relevant information.
We have also provided links to other high quality Australian internet sites. For example, the Raising Children Network website is an Australian Government initiative that provides high quality content for anyone who has responsibility for the care of children, from parents and Grandcarers to professionals and agencies. In particular, the RCN aims to be a source of personal support by helping to connect people through its discussion forums.
In other instances we have provided internal site links to documents in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). This format is used for internal documents that are updated frequently. Adobe Acrobat Reader® is free software that lets you view and print Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files on all major computer platforms.
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