A Brief Look At The Buckman Family

In the film is based on the Buckman family, the family consists of the grandfather Frank and his wife Marilyn and their adult children Gil, Helen, Susan, and Larry. Their adult children began their there was Gail and his wife Karen and their three biological children Keven, Taylor and Justin. Then we have Helen and her two children Julie and Garry. We also have Susan and her husband Nathan and their daughter Patty. And lastly we have Frank and his son Cool. The film portrays the variety of family structurers such as the binuclear family two parent household with biological children, single parent family one adult with children under the age of eighteen, and grand-parenting a grandparent that takes care of their grandchild due to the absence
In a study conducted of 297 grandparents with custodial rights it aims to examine if a child faces trauma influences grandparent stressor (Spranga, Choi Eslingera, and Woosley, 2014). Their results were as follow; 72% of grandparents stated that the child was exposed to a traumatic event, prevalent types of trauma reported by grandparents were emotional/psychological abuse or maltreatment, grandparents that cared for children that faces trauma reported higher stress than grandparents that did not care for a child without trauma, children with trauma tend to have more grandparent-child conflict which adds to the grandparent’s stress, the study 14 types of trauma were placed in five different categories; direct interpersonal violence, indirect interpersonal, non-intentional trauma illness, community violence, loss such as sudden death or separation, from all the traumas direct interpersonal violence exposure by the child (sexual maltreatment/ abuse/assault, physical abuse, or kidnapping) seem to a higher correlate with grandparent-child conflict (Spranga, Choi Eslingera, and Woosley, 2014). This study proved that a child’s experience can lead to conflict between grandparent and child relationship which can lead to higher stress levels within