I find it ...somewhat ambivalently pleasing that I see many grandparents doing what I would call parenting. You know, the cooking, walking, shopping, dressing. Although I believe that aval care is one aspect of the human species that differentiates us from other species (don't actually know the research on this), the ambivalence comes from the realization that much of this care is "enforced" by economic circumstances - both (or only the one) parents needing to work to make ends meet. So the care and upbringing is left to the grandparents.
A sad comment on economic times, but possibly a good thing in terms of care.
Just sayin.
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