grandchild Betydning & definition

Eksempler på grandchild

• Most contact with adult grandchildren tends to be by telephone or letter.

• Whilst the dependency burden from unmarried children decreased with parental age, surrogate parenthood of grandchildren showed no appreciable decline with age.

• Perhaps surprisingly, the authors found that only one-quarter of the respondents felt that caring for grandchildren was either very or extremely stressful.

• Some respondents enjoyed holidays with their grandchildren and others liked to have them staying at their homes.

• Yet there is strong evidence that focusing took place only in the third generation (the grandchildren of the migrants).

• More positively, many older people have important household tasks, especially in the care of grandchildren and orphans.

• Factors associated with changes in visiting between grandmothers and grandchildren following an adult child's marriage breakdown.

• Towards their grandchildren, they wanted to project the image of sweetness and caring traditionally associated with grandmothers.