What is it about?
It gives recognition to the hurt some older grandchildless people feel when their friends on Facebook and elsewhere rave about their grandchildren. Various ways of coping are discussed, but the purpose of the article is to recognize the pain that so many feel.
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Why is it important?
There is almost no recognition of the magnitude of the longing to be a grandparent in some circles and the pain of losing out on this expected role in later life. It is important to grandparents to know how hurt their grandchildless friends might feel when they go on endlessly about their cute and high-achieving grandchildren.
Perspectives
I waited a long, long time to be a grandparent and wanted to publish something on this tragedy that is every bit as deserving of empathy as infertility which receives a lot of attention.
katherine van Wormer
university of northern iowa
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This page is a summary of: “I always expected to have grandchildren some day”: The long road from sense of loss to gradual acceptance, Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, October 2018, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/10911359.2018.1515685.
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