This study was carried out to analyze the adversity and family resilience perceived by the grandchildren
in low-income grandparent-grandchild families through in-depth interviews and to make proposals for
policies to support grandparent-grandchild families. Through this study, the following conclusions are
drawn. First, the adversities of the families perceived by teenaged grandchildren include economic
difficulties, difficulties caused by parents’ divorce, accidents and incidents experienced in
grandparent-grandchild families and family conflicts. Second, the belief system of a family is a powerful
force to maintain the family in family resilience, but the organizational system and communication process
of the family show relative vulnerability.
Through the results of this study, proposals for social policies are made to support the power of a
grandparent-grandchild family as an alternative family for raising children, which resolves the issues of the
alienation of children and their emotional defects due to marital dissolution which is increasing today. In
other words, these include the necessity of the enactment of ‘support for supporting grandparent-grandchild
families act (bill)’ and an institutional improvement to ‘include grandparents in the scope of visitation right
after divorce’ for grandparent-grandchild families. In addition, institutional enactment and interest are
required, including s system for supporting extrinsic services, family counseling through vouchers, connection
with school and social system and various support systems for community networks to resolve the issue of
adversity specific to grandparent-grandchild families.