隔代教養親職教育實際─一個跨年研究：探看教養內容與挑戰

Grandparenting and its practiceexploring its content and challenges across a 4-year time period

本研究以一個北部雙薪家庭的隔代教養祖孫為對象，以半結構深度訪談方式進行資料蒐集，這是一個間隔四年的研究，比照之前蒐集的資料，探討隔代親職內容的改變與可能困境。儘管祖代親職是不得已的最佳選擇，教養內容從幼年的生活起居、作息、安全健康照護，重心慢慢擴及至學齡期的學業、人際關係與品格養成，雖然課業學習有外面的安親與補習班協助，但是在臨時需要幫助時，還是得靠延伸家庭家人的介入；然而隨著孫輩年齡漸長，祖輩的管教效力就大打折扣，若是沒有親密關係作媒介，祖輩的無力感會增加；祖孫都希望子輩（也就是孫輩父母）可以回歸親職本位，讓孩子可以有心理上更多的安全感。

This study invited a pair of participants-a grandmother and her granddaughter-from a double-income family in the northern part of Taiwan to investigated parenting’s content and challenges across a 4-year time period. The data was collected via semi-interviews and participant observation which obtained in 2002 and 2006 respectively. The result shows : grandparenting has expanded to supervising pre-school academic work， interpersonal relationships and character shaping apart from caring for childhood basic needs， safety and health care concerns. Even with the assistance from the neighborhood day-care centers or crammed schools to help with the schoolwork and respire， the aid and the support they can count on might be mainly from their own extended family.Grandparenting seems to be considered a close-to-the best option chosen under some inevitable circumstances， even though the effectiveness of nurturing might face daunting problems as the grandchildren grow up. If there’s any problem occurred in the grandparent –grandchild relationship， the caretaker might be overwhelmed by the fatigue， powerlessness， and emotional burden. If this is the case， it is possible that the grandparents would ask their sons or daughters to go back to their “parenting” position and the grandchildren would turn to their parents to seek more substantial security.