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I wonder if "children raised mostly by their grandparents" will start to become more common. There's been a rise in multi-generational households lately due to
by jpm_sd 6y ago
I wonder if "children raised mostly by their grandparents" will start to become more common. There's been a rise in multi-generational households lately due to pandemic shifts.
Maybe younger parents who are also clawing their way up the career ladder will be able to take advantage of this situation to offload some parenting to their own parents, and then pay it forward when their own kids have children later on? Might be the only practical way to have kids in your 20s these days.
- evnc 6y agoI kinda wish it would. Anecdotally, as a dual income household grandparental assistance was indispensable in raising our baby, and I've sorely missed it since the pandemic hit and no one's visiting any more. I recognize how lucky we were to have that available, since not everyone does. I think it can also have great benefits for the grandparents, who find a new sense of fulfillment and purpose and something to fill their time later in life. It reminds me of the studies on combining preschools and nursing homes showing positive outcomes for both populations. Also, intuitively, multi-generational households were the norm throughout human history before industrialization and economic centralization encouraged "leave your family behind and go Seek Your Fortune".