The Average Age Of Grandparents Is Changing — And It Has Startling Implications

With an aging population and a declining fertility rate globally, more and more families are likely to find themselves in this situation. The researchers also found increasing age gaps between generations in families, leading to people becoming grandparents (and great-grandparents) at later ages. For example, if you have a child when you’re 20 and that child has a child when they’re 20, you become a grandparent at age 40. But if you have a child at age 40, and then your child has a child at age 40, you won’t...