Highlights•Much 'parenting'is done by alloparents in our species.•Alloparenting is universal
but who helps varies somewhat between populations.•Fathering is typical but …

Intergenerational coparenting has become increasingly prevalent globally. Based on 42
papers identified from a comprehensive search of published studies in five databases, this …

The authors examined whether the provision of child care helps older adults maintain better
cognitive functioning. Descriptive evidence from the Survey of Health, Ageing and …

Objectives: Grandparents are an important source of childcare. However, caring for
grandchildren may affect grandparents' health in both positive and negative ways. Our study …

Childcare arrangements are key in women's ability to juggle motherhood and work outside
the home. As such, the study of access to childcare and its use is of great policy relevance …

Across Europe grandparents play very different roles. This paper studies to what extent
grandparents' role as providers of child care relates to the country policy context, focusing on …

We study whether grandparenthood is associated with older people's subjective well-being
(SWB), considering the association with life satisfaction of having grandchildren per se, their …

Demographers have long attempted to project future changes in the size and composition of
populations, but have ignored what these processes will mean for the size, composition, and …

Against the background of a 'new wave'of empirical studies investigating various aspects of
grandparenthood across a broad range of regional contexts, this article aims to take stock of …

We investigate (a) how the proportion of European grandparents providing childcare
changed over a period of 15 years,(b) how these proportions differ by gender and education …