In 2023 we have a surplus-deficit situation in the grandparent-grandchild department. Too many of us, not enough of them. It knocks us off our rockers. It makes us do anything for baby time, writes CathrinBradbury.
— missing the point. They project grandparents will make up “22% of humanity” by 2050. And this is good news how? Because all I’m hearing is that four out of five of us willWe don’t need to look beyond our own families to see how we got to this inverted pyramid. Here are three generations of grandparenting in mine:
“I’m disappointed but I’ve accepted it,” said my brother David, who along with my sister Laura won’t be having grandchildren. “I believe it would have been regenerative.” There is a pause. “This has filled me with melancholy.” David has a buoyant spirit, though. “Guess I’ll just steal a grandniece or nephew.”
It was the Sunday before Easter as we talked on the phone. I heard water lapping. “That’s my Epsom salts bath because my grandchildren are coming at 4.” “The number one thing is relationships.” She rocked three-month-old Oscar’s bouncy chair with her foot as we talked in her bright and cheerful Victorian semi, where Jane has lived for 42 years.
of 500 seniors aged 70 and older reported grandparents who were actively involved — underline babysitters, not caregivers — had mortality rates 37 per cent lower than grandparents who were not. Jill thinks about grandparenting in the face of climate change and species loss. “I can’t do anything about what our grandchildren are going to inherit. Except to help them see the value and beauty of the natural world. My constant thought is that the world is not going to be OK without that kind of optimism.”
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