a b c d Zhou, Jing; Mao, Weiyu; Lee, Yura; Chi, Iris (2016-01-04). "The Impact of Caring for Grandchildren on Grandparents' Physical Health Outcomes: The Role of Intergenerational Support". Research on Aging. 39 (5): 612–634. doi: 10.1177/0164027515623332. PMID 26733495. S2CID 3501128. There are different types of grandparental involvement, including nonresident grandparents, co-resident grandparents, grandparent-maintained household, and custodial grandparents. [18] [19] Ko, Pei-Chun; Hank, Karsten (2013). "Grandparents caring for grandchildren in China and Korea: Findings from CHARLS and KLoSA". The Journals of Gerontology: Series B. 69 (4): 646–651. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbt129. PMID 24378959.

Taking care of grandchildren can also have benefits on grandparents’ emotional health. As an example, many grandparents start to feel a sense of purpose and meaning in life again after their retirement; as another example, their ties with their adult children and grandchildren are also strengthened. [39] Many grandparents also think of the caregiving experience as positive because it provides another chance for them to make up mistakes they made with their own children and give them more opportunities to educate their grandchildren and improve their parenting styles. [40] Cultural comparisons [ edit ] Grandmother and her granddaughter a b Thang, Leng Leng; Mehta, Kalyani; Usui, Tsuneo; Tsuruwaka, Mari (2011-12-01). "Being a Good Grandparent: Roles and Expectations in Intergenerational Relationships in Japan and Singapore". Marriage & Family Review. 47 (8): 548–570. doi: 10.1080/01494929.2011.619303. ISSN 0149-4929. S2CID 144713830. The representation of grandparents as grandparents is recent in France: Diderot invented the verbs grandpériser and grandmériser in the 18th century. Victor Hugo published L'Art d'être grand-père in 1877. [53]In exceptional circumstances, the right to maintain personal relations may also be granted to other persons, in particular, to members of the family, provided that this is in the best interests of the child." [61] Grandparent-maintained households: A grandparent who is in charge of the household. In this type of household, the parents may or may not be present. [10] In the US, 33% of children who live in a grandparent-maintained household have only the grandparents present; this is comparable to another 30% who live with a grandmother and one or more parents. [10] Grandparents, individually known as grandmother and grandfather, are the parents of a person's father or mother – paternal or maternal. Every sexually-reproducing living organism who is not a genetic chimera has a maximum of four genetic grandparents, eight genetic great-grandparents, sixteen genetic great-great-grandparents, thirty-two genetic great-great-great-grandparents, sixty-four genetic great-great-great-great grandparents, etc. In the history of modern humanity, around 30,000 years ago, the number of modern humans who lived to be a grandparent increased. [ citation needed] It is not known for certain what spurred this increase in longevity, [1] but it is generally believed that a key consequence of three generations being alive together was the preservation of information which could otherwise have been lost; an example of this important information might have been where to find water in times of drought. [2] [3]

Cherlin, Andrew J.; Furstenberg, Frank F. (1992). The new American grandparent: a place in the family, a life apart (1st Harvard University Press pbk.ed.). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674029484. OCLC 434586472. a b Xu, Ling; Chi, Iris (2015). "Ageing and grandparenting in Asia". In Quah, Stella R. (ed.). Routledge handbook of families in Asia. New York: Routledge. pp.246–258. Growing up, in my family we called our grandmothers Grandma Rose and Grandma Bessie, to distinguish between the two; our only living grandfather was simply Grandpa. Similarly, my kids called their only set of living grandparents Grandma and Grandpa. While some used terms of endearments like Nona or Bubbe or Oma, for the most part there was little variation among the previous generation — almost everyone we knew used a word that, in some language, meant "grandmother" and "grandfather."

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Grandmas, Grandmas and Grandpas, holding your hand's all I need, I wish I had y'all, with me, whoa woo-woo Nini: Taking the opening N from the word nonbinary, this is a sweet gender-neutral grandparent name to suggest. Granddaddy: It has the sentimental appeal of Granddad with the softer and familiarized “-dy” suffix to endear the grandkids. Chen, Ellen Marie; Center, Philosophy Documentation (1969-08-01). "Nothingness and the Mother Principle in Early Chinese Taoism". International Philosophical Quarterly. 9 (3): 391–405. doi: 10.5840/ipq19699332.