GRAND Magazine - Winter 2023 - 34

grand finale
The age of the grandparent has arrived
T
he ratio of grandparents to children is higher
than ever before. That has big consequences.
This month in The Econonomist, a story
appeared that I thought would be of great interest
to our readers.
" The most saccharine song of 1980 was " There's
No One Quite Like Grandma " , performed by the St
Winifred's School choir from Stockport, England. It
shot to the top of the British charts as kids everywhere
gave it to granny for Christmas. " Grandma, we love
you, " they sang. " Grandma, we do. Though you may
be far away, we think of you. "
Today, as the once-cherubic choristers start to
become grandmas and grandpas themselves, grandparenting
has changed dramatically. Two big demographic
trends are making nana and gramps more
important. First, people are living longer. Global
life expectancy has risen from 51 to 72 since 1960.
Second, families are shrinking. Over the same period,
the number of babies a woman can expect to have
in her lifetime has fallen by half, from 5 to 2.4. That
means the ratio of living grandparents to children is
steadily rising.
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Surprisingly little research has been done into
this. The Economist could not find reliable figures
for how many living grandparents there are, so we
asked Diego Alburez-GutiƩrrez of the Max Planck
Institute for Demographic Research in Germany to
produce some estimates by crunching usage and
population data with models of kinship structures in
each country.
We found that there are 1.5bn grandparents in the
"
The evidence suggests
children do better
with grandparental help...
"
world, up from 0.5bn in 1960 (though the further back
one goes, the fuzzier the estimates become). As a share
of the population, they have risen from 17% to 20%.
And the ratio of grandparents to children under 15 has
vaulted from 0.46 in 1960 to 0.8 today.
By 2050 we project that there will be 2.1bn grandparents
(making up 22% of humanity), and slightly more grandparents
than under-15s. That will have profound consequences.
The evidence suggests children do better with grandparental
help - which usually, in practice, means from grandmothers.
And it will help drive another unfinished social
revolution - the movement of women into paid work. "
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