Grandparents become custodial carers of their grandchildren for a variety of reasons, including love, fear of losing the children to the system, efforts to protect children while managing relationships with the adult child (parent), policy impetus, and even for the convenience of child protection systems. As obvious candidates for care provision, grandparents report feeling pressured to take on care, and yet many grandcarers are poorly supported and feel taken for granted. Drawing on a mixed method study of grandparent carers and service providers located in Western Australia, we argue that there are important issues of inequity and injustice associated with being a grandcarer, in particular due to systemic and discursive failures to recognize the complexity and challenges of care provision. Misrecognition and epistemic injustice result in further marginalization and disempowerment, compounding barriers to accessing services and supports, which in turn impact upon child and family wellbeing. The aim of this article is to analyse the complex circumstances described by grandcarers and service providers in interview and survey data, highlighting issues of inequity and injustice and therefore areas for improving policy and services to support grandfamilies.

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“这不公平”：监护祖父母在澳大利亚获得服务和支持

祖父母出于各种原因成为孙子的监护人，包括爱、害怕将孩子丢给系统、在管理与成年子女（父母）的关系的同时努力保护孩子、政策推动力，甚至为了孩子的方便保护系统。作为提供照料的明显候选人，祖父母报告说感到有压力要照料，但许多祖父母得不到支持，觉得理所当然。借鉴对位于西澳大利亚州的祖父母照顾者和服务提供者的混合方法研究，我们认为存在与担任祖父母相关的不公平和不公正的重要问题，特别是由于系统性和话语性的失败，无法认识到照顾的复杂性和挑战条款。误解和认知上的不公正导致进一步的边缘化和权力丧失，加剧了获得服务和支持的障碍，进而影响儿童和家庭福祉。本文的目的是分析祖父母和服务提供者在访谈和调查数据中描述的复杂情况，突出不公平和不公正的问题，因此需要改进政策和服务以支持祖父母的领域。