The Key Role of Grandparents in Providing Childcare in Today´s Society

The unmarried mother (European Commission, 2013; Shattuck and Kreider, 2013) and today's high divorce rate (Timonen et al., 2009) have children, so one single parent or one parent becomes more common There is it. If a lonely parentage relationship is a new scene, this may be worth it. It is the only trend occurring in modern times. The cause of childbirth of a single parent has changed over the years. According to Thane (2010), history shows that lonely parentage relationship is not a recent trend.

My grandparents are changing the role in the modern world, especially as their involvement in child rearing is increasing. Since 2007, about one third of children in the United States live in families with parents and grandparents. Approximately 67% of these families are also maintained by two grandparents or grandmothers. Likewise, in the absence of parents, over 40% of the grandparents of eleven countries take care of grandchildren. In the UK, about 63% of grandparents take care of grandchildren under 16 years of age. Participation by grandparents is also common in eastern society. For example, 48% of Hong Kong grandparents report that they take care of their grandchildren. In China, about 58% of Chinese grandparents over the age of 45 are involved in childcare. In Singapore, 40% of children from birth to 3 years of age take care of grandparents, and this proportion is still increasing.

Researchers in the U.S. researchers are able to receive up to 10 hours of nursing care per week for one third of children under the age of 6 and 47% of all grandparents with children under 13 years of age provide some child-rearing service doing. (Guzman, 2004). More grandmothers (54%) provided parenting services, but they discovered that their grandfather (38%) also made a significant contribution. In the UK, it is estimated that half of working parents rely on grandparents to look after their children. My grandparents were preparing to provide some childcare services but sometimes they even reduced their working hours but they did not want to give up on their work.