Príklady grandchildren

• 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.

• These grandmothers enjoyed the help provided by and the company of their daughters and grandchildren.

• 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.

• For example, for someone whose life revolves around grandchildren, the role of grandparent can be conserved despite severe physical disabilities.

• Grandparenting is diverse, viewed differently by grandparents, parents and grandchildren.

• Respondents provided information about the presence of children, children-in-law, grandchildren, siblings, siblings-in-law, other relatives, friends, colleagues, neighbours, members of organisations and other acquaintances.

• We talk about our children's lives and how naughty our grandchildren are.

• None mentioned grandchildren as sources of instrumental help or emotional support.

• During this period, grandchildren were younger and many could only visit with their parents.