This child is also mine : a narrative approach to the phenomenon of atypical custodial grandparenthood

Abstract

This book is a study about the nature of narrated world of human experience. The nature of narrated experience is researched through the phenomenon of empirical world, i.e. atypical custodial grandparenthood in Lithuania when grandparents raise their grandchildren due to external migration of their adult children. The narrative research elaborates on the conception that people create the meaning of lived events and experiences using various modes of narrativity (interaction, adoption, inner reflection) and adapting a language toolkit (emplotment, temporality, focalization, social context).