Why Grandmothers Matter

1. The grandmother hypothesis
2. ‘Mum, we’ve got something to tell you’
3. ‘One thing we can give as grandmothers is praise’
4. ‘They grow up quickly’
5. ‘But [my grandson]’s always busy with his friends or computer’

6. ‘As a grandmother, there are two of you’
7. The couple relationship
8. ‘She (grandmother) remembered talking to her grandmother’
9. A generation of grandmothers

Conclusion: Invisible threads

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