“Younger people with callous or indifferent or (most likely) uninformed attitudes about the elderly are cutting their lifespans shorter.”
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“Kids who grow up with active grandparents involved in their daily lives do far better through their entire lifetime than those deprived of such contacts.”
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“Grandparents pay a steep price for being cut off from childcare work, inspiration, and fun. They die sooner, according to the ‘Berlin Aging Study.’ It was first published in the journal Evolution and Human Behavior.”
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“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.”
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“By our career-first model we have effectively removed actively involved grandparents from the family reciprocity love-motivated childcare picture. This is insane. Is insane too strong a word? No.”
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“When our grandchildren were in school before the virus hit, I’d find myself comparing notes with a throng of parents, people half my age, while waiting around for the dismissal bell at our local public school.”
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“I found my life stripped to the essentials. What I was doing full-time ‘career-wise’ wasn’t about career at all. It was about being a full-time father of three, grandfather of five, and husband of one. I found during the year-plus of stay-at-home sheltering that I was living in tune with the most basic evolutionary prime directive of all, which I’d been researching for this book for five years: the survival of the friendliest.”
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