Madonna Harrington Meyer Featured in The Grandparent Effect

Is grandmotherhood intensifying?

By Olivia Gentile

For years, scholars have been saying that motherhood in the United States is more demanding than it was in the past: while mothers used to simply send children outside to play, now they attend ceaselessly to every aspect of their development.

In groundbreaking and engaging new book, a prominent sociologist says that grandmotherhood may be getting tougher, too.

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