Grandparents and great-grandparents in Estonian population

Grandparents' Entitlements and Obligations

In this article, it is argued that grandparents' obligations originate from parental obligations (i.e from the relationship they have with their children, the parents of their grandchildren) and not from the role of grandparent per se, and any entitlements flow from the extent to which these obligations are met. The position defended is, therefore, that grandparents qua grandparents are not ent...

How Grandparents Matter

Low birth rates in developed societies reflect women's difficulties in combining work and motherhood. While demographic research has focused on the role of formal childcare in easing this dilemma, evolutionary theory points to the importance of kin. The cooperative breeding hypothesis states that the wider kin group has facilitated women's reproduction during our evolutionary history. This mech...

The occupational illnesses of grandparents.

To the Editor: While visiting our kids and grandson last year, I had a recurring thought: being a grandparent is not for 'sissies'. My wife and I thought about how grandparenting challenged our health; each day saw some insult to body homeostasis and we were grateful each night for another day survived. Don't get me wrong, we wouldn't trade days with our little man for all the gold in China or ...

for ‘ The grandparents effect in social mobility ’

We provide the observed cell counts of the three-way mobility tables for men and women below. We also provide the R codes for fitting the models reported in the paper. Individual level data, from which the mobility tables are derived, are available from the following sources. The data of the National Survey for Health and Development can be obtained from the UK Medical Research Council, http://...

The Role of Grandparents in The