Word: parented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Every time a child is born, a grandparent is born too," says grandparenting guru and retired child psychiatrist Arthur Kornhaber. The bond between grandchild and grandparent is second only to the attachment between parent and child. Kornhaber calls it "clear love" because it has no strings attached. "There's always some conditional element to parents' love. Grandparents are just glad to have you, and the child can feel that...
There's an old joke that grandparents and grandchildren are natural allies because they share a common enemy. If parents are the enemy, they must be won over, for they are the gatekeepers who regulate grandparents' access to their grandchildren. According to researchers, the better the relationship between parent and grandparent, the greater the contact and closeness between grandparent and grandchild. "It's up to the parents to make the grandparents feel welcome and to send the message to their children that they're really integral," says Sally Newman, executive director of Generations Together at the University of Pittsburgh...
...strong today and expected to increase to as many as 100 million by 2010, are clearly a cash reserve waiting to be tapped. So, many travel agents now offer intergenerational packages. Helena Koenig's Grandtravel is, well, the grandmother of them all. Long ago, when Koenig was just a parent, she noticed that the most successful outings she had with her kids were the ones in which she allowed each child to invite a friend. Fourteen years ago, after launching a successful travel agency, she used that knowledge and gave it a twist. She began organizing excursions designed for grandparents...
...world with a shortage of good day care and an abundance of single-parent and two-career households, grandparents willing to care for their grandchildren are highly prized. In the old days, such care was generally rendered by Grandma. Today the social forces that produced the stay-at-home dad have introduced the caregiver granddad. Peter Gross, a retired law professor, picks up grandsons Paul, 3, and Mark, 18 months, every weekday morning at 8:15 and cares for them in his San Francisco home until 6 p.m. "It's a very close, intense relationship that's at the center...
...Corbetts--and millions like them--the grand has been taken out of grandparenting, leaving them with all the responsibilities of raising a child. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 3.7 million grandparents had grandchildren living with them in 1997, about 35% without a parent present. Some are as young as 35; others are in their 80s. They cross social, economic and religious lines, and their numbers are rising...