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Family ties that bind: Maternal grandparents are more involved in the lives of their grandchildren
Date:12/18/2007

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For grandparents living within 19.5 miles (30 km) of their grandchildren, over 30% of the maternal grandmothers had contact daily or a few times a week. Around 25% of the maternal grandfathers had contact daily or a few times a week. In contrast, only around 15 % of the paternal grandmothers and little more than 15% of the paternal grandfathers would have contact daily or a few times a week.

The research which is published in the latest edition of the journal Evolutionary Psychology, was conducted on a sample of over 800 grandparents from a representative Dutch sample (The Netherlands Kinship Panel Study www.nkps.nl ). The analyses controlled for other factors such as grandparental and child age, marital status, and number of children.


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