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Discuss the role of divorce on grandparenting.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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Explain why those in the sandwich generation feel as though they are caught in the middle.
 
  What will be an ideal response?



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Answer to Question 1

Grandparents may have to help a child and grandchildren after a divorce. Because children live with their mother in the majority of divorces, paternal grandparents often lose contact with their grandchildren. In addition, divorce and/or remarriage of grandparents adds a new level of relationships to work with.

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Young adults remaining or returning home represents one side of the sandwich. At the same time, longer life expectancy has also increasingly led to a middle-aged couple's empty nest being refilled by aging parents, the other half of the sandwich.



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