ArticleEuropean journal of ageing2018
What do we know about grandparents? Insights from current quantitative data and identification of future data needs.
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- The Generational Gift: The Effects of Grandparental Care on the Next Generations' Health and Well-Being.Health economics · 2026Article
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- Multiple child caregivers and multiple cognitive caregiving practices: Associations with early childhood development in 51 low- and middle-income countries.International journal of behavioral development · 2025Article
- Is There a Link Between Older Adults' Frequency of (Face-to-Face and Remote) Contact With Grandchildren and Cognitive Functioning Over 12 Years?The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2025Article
- The role of duty, gender and intergenerational care in grandmothers' parenting of grandchildren: a phenomenological qualitative study.BMC nursing · 2024Article
- Intersectional Inequalities in the Transition to Grandparenthood and Cognitive Functioning: A Longitudinal Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminatory Accuracy.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2024Article
- The prevalence of grandparental childcare in Europe: a research update.European journal of ageing · 2023Article
- Grandparents' Professional and Educational Activity: A Positive or Negative Impact on Relationships with Grandchildren?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Grandparenting activities and mental health in Northern Sri Lanka.Journal of intergenerational relationships · 2023Article
- Is grandparental childcare socio-economically patterned? Evidence from the English longitudinal study of ageing.European journal of ageing · 2022Article
- Work history, economic resources, and women's labour market withdrawal after the birth of the first grandchild.European journal of ageing · 2020Article
- Grandparenthood in Europe.European journal of ageing · 2018Article
- Grandparental Childcare for Biological, Adopted, and Step-Offspring: Findings From Cross-National Surveys.Evolutionary psychology : an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behaviorArticle
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Abstract
Against the background of a 'new wave' of empirical studies investigating various aspects of grandparenthood across a broad range of regional contexts, this article aims to take stock of what has been achieved so far and which lessons we can learn from this for the future. Our focus is on the measurement of grandparenthood and grandparenting in quantitative social surveys and the implications this has for the substantive questions we can ask and the answers we can get out of such data. For several broader questions-who is a grandparent and when does this transition happen; what does it mean to be a grandparent; and what are the implications of grandparenthood for families?-we review previous questionnaire items from a variety of surveys as well as studies in which they were used. We identify relevant issues related to these questions which cannot be adequately addressed with currently available data, but should be considered in new or ongoing survey projects. The answers provided by recent studies as well as the many still open questions identified here indicate excellent prospects for scholarship on grandparents in the years to come.
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