TY - Report AU - Deborah Brennan PY - 2013 T1 - Grandparents raising grandchildren: towards recognition, respect and reward PB - Social Policy Research Centre (UNSW) DO - https://doi.org/APO-35685 UR - https://apo.org.au/node/35685 AB - Executive Summary: Grandparents have long played a major role in the lives of their children and grandchildren, with some providing extensive emotional, material and practical support. Since the last quarter of the 20th century in Australia as in many other countries, grandparent carers - the focus of this study - have become both politically organised and a focus of policy attention. ER -