A study conducted at the University of Turku shows that investment by maternal grandmothers can improve the well-being of grandchildren who have faced adversities in life. The positive effects can last well into adulthood.
Lifetime childlessness as well as greater numbers of children among the low- or medium-educated Finns is tied to changes in partnerships.
A new study conducted at the University of Turku, Finland, does not support the assumption that grandparents would always participate more in a grandchild’s life during difficult circumstances.
According to mothers’ experiences, the daily life during the coronavirus pandemic and lockdown in the spring of 2020 blurred the boundaries between work and family responsibilities and roles. Especially in families where the division of childcare responsibilities had been unequal already before the pandemic and where only the mother switched to working from home, the mothers felt that they shouldered the main responsibility for the increased childcare duties.