Grandparents are healthier, wealthier, and longer-lived than ever before.
What does this mean for us all?
On this site, I consider the growing importance of grandparents to their children and grandchildren.
I hope to entertain you.
And I hope to turn everything you thought you knew about grandparents upside down.
How to unite the young and the old for the common good.
Here’s a nice video from Zero to Three about a single mother who moved in with her own mother. Single parenthood and multigenerational households have risen in tandem in recent years.
So far, grandparent care has been observed in only one bird species: the Seychelles Warbler, which inhabits five small islands in the Indian Ocean.
Lauren Phillips is the first woman to join the ranks of the city’s firefighters in 30 years.
In 2018, I wrote about a caravan of grandparents who stormed the Texas-Mexico border to protest Trump’s treatment of migrant children, Gabriel García Márquez’s memories of his grandmother, and many other topics.
Many stereotypes about grandparents are wrong.