She's got photographs of all her grandchildren on the mantelpiece.
We've got two grandchildren - a three-year-old girl and a baby boy.
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.
