| 词汇 | grandchildren |
| 释义 | grandchildren plural ofgrandchild Examples of grandchildrengrandchildren Most contact with adult grandchildren tends to be by telephone or letter. Whilst the dependency burden from unmarried children decreased with parental age, surrogate parenthood of grandchildren showed no appreciable decline with age. Perhaps surprisingly, the authors found that only one-quarter of the respondents felt that caring for grandchildren was either very or extremely stressful. Some respondents enjoyed holidays with their grandchildren and others liked to have them staying at their homes. These grandmothers enjoyed the help provided by and the company of their daughters and grandchildren. Yet there is strong evidence that focusing took place only in the third generation (the grandchildren of the migrants). More positively, many older people have important household tasks, especially in the care of grandchildren and orphans. Factors associated with changes in visiting between grandmothers and grandchildren following an adult child's marriage breakdown. Towards their grandchildren, they wanted to project the image of sweetness and caring traditionally associated with grandmothers. For example, for someone whose life revolves around grandchildren, the role of grandparent can be conserved despite severe physical disabilities. Grandparenting is diverse, viewed differently by grandparents, parents and grandchildren. Respondents provided information about the presence of children, children-in-law, grandchildren, siblings, siblings-in-law, other relatives, friends, colleagues, neighbours, members of organisations and other acquaintances. We talk about our children's lives and how naughty our grandchildren are. None mentioned grandchildren as sources of instrumental help or emotional support. During this period, grandchildren were younger and many could only visit with their parents. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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