Prompt 1: Yarris argues that, in Nicaragua, grandmother care for children whose parent has migrated is shaped by particular structural conditions meeting particular cultural values. First, discuss at least three structural conditions that Yarris argues are central for understanding this kind of grandmother care. Second, discuss the main cultural values that Yarris suggests grandmothers are embodying through their care. Third, explain how Yarris sees these structural conditions as connected to these cultural values in the everyday lives of the grandmothers she studied, and give an example of this (from the text) in the life of one grandmother. Lastly, explain Yarriss argument for grandmother caregiving as an agentive, critical response to the situation in which these grandmothers find themselves and their families.
