The latest scholarship about grandparents and grandkids.
The share of young adults living at home has been rising for decades in the United States. But in the six months since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, the increase has been especially steep.
Little is known about step-grandparents, even thought they’re increasingly common. If you’re a step-grandparent, what’s it like?
An adult male bonobo who lives with his mother is three times more likely to become a father than one who’s gone his own way.
There’s a new study out about grandparents. Some of its findings surprised me.
There used to be many more children than elders; now, for the first time in history, the old outnumber the young.
The five places in the world where people live the longest are also places where elders spend a good deal of their time tending vegetable gardens.
Seventy percent of American teens see anxiety and depression as “major problems” among their peers, according to a new study.
So far, grandparent care has been observed in only one bird species: the Seychelles Warbler, which inhabits five small islands in the Indian Ocean.
Many stereotypes about grandparents are wrong.
Kids are often closer to their maternal grandparents than to their paternal ones, research suggests, perhaps because mothers tend to maintain closer ties with their own parents than fathers do.
Because of how their parents are raising them, kids will grow up to be more entitled, less disciplined, and less independent than their elders, an overwhelming majority of Australian grandparents believes.
Americans and Canadians are spending more years as grandparents than they did a generation ago, and they’re spending them in better health—even though they’re older when their grandkids are born.
New research suggests that our ancestors stayed safe at night thanks to the divergent sleep habits of the young and the old.
Check out these proverbs to see how grandparenthood varies across cultures.
Grandparents often suspect autism before parents do, but they sometimes hesitate to voice their concern, a new study reveals.
In the first study of its kind, a team of scientists has found that grandparents who provide regular care for their grandchildren have an edge on survival over those who don’t.
Older adults in the United States enjoy greater well-being than younger ones, but they’re faring far better in some states than in others, according to a recent survey.
The monumental stress of raising a child with autism can be eased by grandparents, who are often “ideally suited” to provide parents with support, scholars say.
Contrary to popular belief, Americans are nearly as likely today as they were in 1950 to live in a multigenerational household, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center.
