Where are all the Grandparents?
“Children visit a grandparent from time to time. The rest of their lives are spent in hermetically sealed childcare, preschool, school, trade school or college, and then career age-specific bubbles. When older people are put at risk, this is accepted because ‘they’ are so isolated from the rest of us. Many Americans have no grandparent living nearby or have had little to no childhood connection with older people. How come? According to research done by Pew in a 2012 study, the trend of Americans waiting longer to start their families (thus inadvertently eliminating younger, healthy grandparent childcare from their lives) began in the 1970s. The study offers a glimpse of what the future will look like for millennials: no one in their family will be at the right part of older age to help out when they have children.”
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Fall in Love, Have Children, Stay Put, Save the Planet, Be Happy
is Available for Pre-Order Now.
To be published November 2 by HCI Books • Distributed by Simon & Schuster
