Photo 5: This photo was taken after school one day when a grandpa was picking up his granddaughter.
Sociological Perspective: With the increasing rate of dual-earner families, families are replying more on outside kin and extended families for child care. This grandfather is responsible on a daily basis for picking up his granddaughter. We can also look at this issue from another perspective. Perhaps the grandfather is dependent on his kids for assistance and needs to live with them. He might pick up his granddaughter to help but his kids are being subjected to the term "sandwich" generation by having to take care of both his/her parent and his/her children. If this is the case, how does this complex family structure affect the family structure, which is predominately nuclear?
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