Predictors of grandparental investment decisions in contemporary Europe: biological relatedness and beyond.

ABSTRACT: Across human cultures, grandparents make a valued contribution to the health of their families and communities. Moreover, evidence is gathering that grandparents have a positive impact on the development of grandchildren in contemporary industrialized societies. A broad range of factors that influence the likelihood grandparents will invest in their grandchildren has been explored by disciplines as diverse as sociology, economics, psychology and evolutionary biology. To progress toward an encompassing framework, this study will include biological relatedness between grandparents and grandchildren, a factor central to some discipline's theoretical frameworks (e.g., evolutionary biology), next to a wide range of other factors in an analysis of grandparental investment in contemporary Europe.

SUBMITTER: Coall DA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3885520 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature