Grandparents Raising Grandchildren

The act of building a second generation often comes with a series of benefits and challenges in the desire to ensure grandchildren feel the sense of security and care from their grandparents. The ability to create a deeper relationship and develop some bond that establishes a new family for the two parties enhances their social understanding. The paper will undertake a review of the client population, explanation of the micro, macro, mezzo intervention and possible intervention difficulties. The study will elicit significant insights about the challenges and rewards that come with the act of raising a second generation and being able to provide adequate parenting. Children are compassionate members of the society that gain extensively from good parenting as they develop and transition into adulthood.

The undivided attention has significantly enhanced the ability of grandparents to offer better parenting as compared to parents that have to contend with balancing between jobs and parenting needs. Moreover, grandparents get significantly challenged with the need to forego a lot of leisure time and adapt to the desire of creating time for the grandchildren. Grandparents are supposed to give up their independence and travelling time among other activities to take up the need of developing schedules to monitor the growth progression of their grandchildren. Parenting equally comes with the different stressful moments in contending with the grief that comes with experiencing the difficulties that arise with controlling teenagers as they take on the transition to adulthood after adolescent (Choi, Sprang, & Eslinger, 2016).

The challenges experienced in the course of parenting provide a deeper connection with the grandchildren making it a rewarding experience for grandparents to engage their time in bringing up children under a good value system. Explanation of Micro Intervention Interventions relate to the activities put forward towards influencing change on how certain things are being done for some time. Social work interventions involve the development of structures and methods that seek to apply the knowledge, skills, and understanding of a given population (Doley, Bell, Watt, & Simpson, 2015). Interventions are premised on undertaking an analysis of a given section of society towards ensuring that a support mechanism is deployed towards providing value is attained and guides the resolution of social problems. The micro level social work intervention involves an analysis of the inner structure of the client or family under review.

The micro level social work interventions involve the application of different theories to influence the solving of problems at a more personal engagement. The mezzo level framework brings together the various challenges and needs among grandparents while raising grandchildren to ensure a balance between micro and macro initiatives to yield better parenting. The essence of having community organizations set up in conjunction with civil society develops emphasis towards supporting grandparents in raising grandchildren (Hepworth, Rooney, Rooney, & Strom-Gottfried, 2016). The objective of the mezzo level approach delivers an opportunity for the society to come in handy for the purposes of creating a system which better understands the social dynamics of local communities to influence better parenting models. The mezzo intervention model makes it possible to take on the information about families under the stewardship of grandparents and initiate measures that would contribute to positive social progression.

Explanation of the Macro Level Intervention Macro-level intervention entails the structures put in place towards influencing the behavior of societies through comprehensive systemic approaches through institutions. The application of macro intervention details might equally be limited by lack of trust between the client and social worker for them to reveal all the required information for implementing better outputs. Successful intervention mechanisms would be limited if the social workers are not trained on how to handle clients in a micro approach and equally how the awareness mechanism is defined for public participation. Conclusion In conclusion, it is imperative to underscore the existence of difficulties among grandparents and grandchildren when it comes developing a good relationship as a family due to several gaps between the two persons.

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