More grandparents are taking care of their grandchildren. The 1990 U.S. Census reported that3 million, orS percent of children, have grandparents as their primary caregivers. This trend is across racial and socioeconomic groups and has enormous social and legal ramifications. They have trouble deciding where their primary loyalties and priorities should be -to their parents, spouses or children. More families are wrestling with roles and responsibilities of adult children to their aging parents.
More people associate death with old age.
Members of the current older generation, when they were young, experienced deaths of infants and children due to childhood diseases and of young men due to war. Except for the increase in violent deaths among young people, children today are more likely to experience deaths of older people. The term old is generally reserved for the last living generation. Now it is your turn. Draw your own family genogram.