title: Perinatal education and grandparenting: creating an interdependent family environment. Part I: documenting the need.
abstract: This is the first of two articles on the development, implementation, and evaluation of a grandparenting perinatal education program. In part one, a review of the literature is presented, along with the planned content and objectives for the program.
authors.affiliation: V iola  P olomeno  teaches perinatal health nursing and supervises students in community health at the Faculty of Nursing at the Université de Montréal in Montréal, Canada. She also maintains a private practice in perinatal education, mostly for French-speaking parents in the Montréal region.
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authors.lastname: Polomeno