grandparent
Also known as grand-father or grand-mother, grand-mother or grand-father, grandma or grandpa, grandpa or grandma, parent of a parent, parent of parent, parent's parent, grandparents
thumb| The Favorite – Grandfather and Grandson, by Georgios Jakobides (1890)
AI overview
A grandparent is a parent of someone's parent, making them the generation before aunts, uncles, and parents in a family tree. Grandparents often play important roles in families by providing care, wisdom, and emotional support to their grandchildren across generations.
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Research
4,760 papers- Evaluation of Prevention Programs for Grandparent Caregivers: a Systematic Review.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2024Chan ACY, Piehler TFDOI: 10.1007/s11121-023-01594-2
- Intensity of Grandparent Caregiving, Health, and Well-Being in Cultural Context: A Systematic Review.The Gerontologist · 2023Chan ACY, Lee SK, Zhang J et al.DOI: 10.1093/geront/gnac026
- Being a Grandparent and a Pediatrician.Pediatric annals · 2019Hageman JRDOI: 10.3928/19382359-20190924-01
- Grandparent involvement and children's health outcomes: The current state of the literature.ReviewFamilies, systems & health : the journal of collaborative family healthcare · 2016Pulgaron ER, Marchante AN, Agosto Y et al.DOI: 10.1037/fsh0000212
Article
18 sectionsContents
- Titles
- Great-grandparents and beyond
- Etymology
- Variation
- Involvement in childcare
- Types
- Impact
- On grandchildren
- On grandparents
- Cultural comparisons
- In United States
- In France
- In Switzerland
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- Further reading
- External links
thumb| The Favorite – Grandfather and Grandson, by Georgios Jakobides (1890)
Grandparents, individually known as grandmother and grandfather, or Grandma and Grandpa, 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 4 genetic grandparents, 8 genetic great-grandparents, 16 genetic great-great-grandparents, 32 genetic great-great-great-grandparents, 64 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. It is not known for certain what spurred this increase in longevity, 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.