ArticleEuropean journal of ageing2023
The prevalence of grandparental childcare in Europe: a research update.
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- Childcare engagement among older adults in Australia and subsequent physical, psychosocial, and behavioral health outcomes.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2025Article
- The impact of grandchild caregiving on depression among grandparents: a scoping review.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Kinlessness at Older Ages: Prevalence and Heterogeneity in 27 Countries.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2024Article
- Which support is provided in which country? Patterns among older adults in Europe.European journal of ageing · 2024Article
- Investment by maternal grandmother buffers children against the impacts of adverse early life experiences.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Grandchild Care and Grandparents' Well-Being in Context: The Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.Innovation in aging · 2024Article
- Co-resident grandparent and maternal employment. A Northern Ireland cross-sectional administrative data analysis.International journal of population data science · 2024Article
- Emotional competences as predictors of psychological wellbeing and quality of life of supplementary grandparents caregivers.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
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Abstract
We investigate (a) how the proportion of European grandparents providing childcare changed over a period of 15 years, (b) how these proportions differ by gender and education, and (c) how countries not covered in earlier analyses fit into previously identified regional patterns of grandparental childcare in Europe. Using data from Waves 1, 2, and 8 of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), our descriptive analysis provides estimates of the prevalence and intensity of grandparental childcare in 26 European countries as well as of the changes therein over time and across socio-demographically defined groups. Overall, the prevalence and intensity of grandparental childcare in Europe has remained fairly stable over time, with minor increases. Proportions of grandparents providing any childcare strongly vary, however, across countries (from 24 to 60%). Grandmothers are generally more likely to provide childcare than grandfathers, while differences based on educational levels are less clear-cut. Central and southeastern Europe, representing the bulk of the 'new' countries in the analysis, exhibit patterns of grandparental childcare closely resembling those observed in Mediterranean countries. Our analysis revealed an overall stability over time rather than change in grandparents' provision of childcare in Europe, with substantial variations across welfare state regimes and within countries when accounting for grandparents' gender and educational levels. Including countries that had previously been excluded from other studies challenges the 'narrative' that has emerged around a negative macrolevel association between the provision of extensive and intensive grandparental childcare.
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