“Older adults have always played a significant, but often overlooked, role in supporting families. This so-called ‘grandparent advantage’ – the ability to recycle human knowledge, understanding, culture and experience – benefits future generations and is essential to supporting strong, healthy families.
The grandparent advantage manifests itself in many ways. It can be thought of as a continuum measured by the degree to which grandparents are involved in family life. The range runs from older adults who may have occasional contact with children and youth to those that provide some childcare and/or financial assistance or those that provide a roof and full-time care, acting as parents in a skipped generation household” (Butts, 2014).
Grandparents Day 