The negative association between parenthood and life satisfaction is well-established in the well-being literature. Yet little is known about the relationship between life satisfaction and that of grandparenthood. Whilst social scientists agree that there is generally a demand for grandchildren, it remains an empirical question of whether or not this would be reflected in grandparents " life sa...

Recent demographic trends suggest that grandparents may play influential roles in the lives of their grandchildren. Despite this, the role of grandparents in the lives of youth remains an understudied topic. Using data from a nationally-representative group of youth aged 14-19 from the 1992 Wave Two National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH), this study seeks to better understand the rol...

It is widely believed in the public domain that grandparents are enthusiastic participants in their grandchildren’s consumer behaviour – a phenomenon often referred to as the Grandparent Syndrome. However, consumer researchers have paid scant attention to this ancient and sacred consumer relationship. This paper provides one attempt to overcome this by exploring grandparents’ influence in the c...

The objective of this study was to discover the functional and psychosocial concerns of grandfamilies already receiving support services in their community, and to ask if they had the help they needed. Data were gathered from a convenience sample of 16 grandparents who were raising their grandchildren and were involved with a grandfamily support group or workshop. Results indicated that these g...

We examine social mobility patterns over three generations of family members, using data collected in three British birth cohort studies. For both men and women, absolute mobility rates (i.e. total, upward, downward and outflow mobility rates) in the partial parents– children mobility tables vary substantially by grandparents’ social class. As regards relative mobility patterns, there is a stat...

In this study, I used the growth curve model to examine the association between grandparents' (first generation (G1)) life-course exposure to chronic poverty and grandchildren's (third generation (G3)) body mass index (BMI; weight (kg)/height (m)(2)) growth trajectories. This association was estimated separately for male and female grandchildren. Analyses were based on prospective data from a U...

Parents who have lost a baby during pregnancy, delivery, or shortly after birth are commonly offered time to see their baby, memory items, and support. Grandparents are often forgotten mourners, frequently relegated to supporting the bereaved parents, rather than being recognised as mourners in their own right. Family dynamics can often be severely disrupted following a perinatal loss [1]. Care...

AIM Current knowledge about bereavement has been derived mostly from the experiences of spouses, parents, and children. There is a paucity of studies on the grief of grandparents. The aims of this Irish national study were to identify and describe the bereavement experiences of grandparents following the death of a grandchild and to explore their needs and supports throughout this experience. A...

OBJECTIVES To provide an overview of the prevalence and profiles of grandparents providing childcare to grandchildren in 2 East Asian countries, China and South Korea, characterized by similar demographic developments and a shared cultural background but having very different contemporary institutional and socioeconomic circumstances. METHOD We apply logistic models to analyze pilot data from...

Children in the eastern part of Finland have higher serum total and low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol levels than children in the western part of the country. This is consonant with the high mortality rate for coronary heart disease in eastern Finland. Eastern and western Finns are assumed to have different geographic origins; because of this we divided into groups 630 newborns and 3554...