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- noun The
state of being agrandparent
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For 72 years, researchers at Harvard have been examining this question, following 268 men who entered college in the late 1930s through war, career, marriage and divorce, parenthood and grandparenthood, and old age.
What Makes Us Happy? 2009
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For 72 years, researchers at Harvard have been examining this question, following 268 men who entered college in the late 1930s through war, career, marriage and divorce, parenthood and grandparenthood, and old age.
What Makes Us Happy? 2009
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Subsequently, we are entering Empty Nestdom at the age our forebears may have been retiring from jobs -- if they had any -- and were well into doting grandparenthood.
Michele Willens: Face It: Monikerless Murmurs Michele Willens 2011
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Baby Boomers ponder move from parenthood to grandparenthood
FH Boom Daily Digest - September 11, 2009 (The Boomer Blog) 2009
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Subsequently, we are entering Empty Nestdom at the age our forebears may have been retiring from jobs -- if they had any -- and were well into doting grandparenthood.
Michele Willens: Face It: Monikerless Murmurs Michele Willens 2011
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After your children married and had children of their own, you were relegated to grandparenthood and looming senior citizenry.
Kristen Houghton: Women's Relationships Aren't Age-Specific Anymore Kristen Houghton 2011
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Baby Boomers ponder move from parenthood to grandparenthood
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Overview: As the youth-obsessed baby boomers advance, albeit reluctantly, into the next phase of their lives, they are embracing grandparenthood with the same gusto they have expressed for everything else … But grandparenting comes with a catch: It means you are getting old - or at least older.
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Ellen Gilchrist reveals how grandparenthood has eased her fear of death.
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Overview: As the youth-obsessed baby boomers advance, albeit reluctantly, into the next phase of their lives, they are embracing grandparenthood with the same gusto they have expressed for everything else … But grandparenting comes with a catch: It means you are getting old - or at least older.
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