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The evolutionary versus socio-economic view on grandparenthood: What are the grandparents' underlying motivations?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2010

Alexander Pashos
Alexander Pashos
Affiliation:
Institute of Biology, Human Biology and Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin, 14195 Berlin, Germany. pashos@zedat.fu-berlin.dehttp://www.biologie.fu-berlin.de/humanbio/alexander-pashos.htm
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Abstract

Coall & Hertwig (C&H) give an ambitious review about the broad range of grandparenting literature from the perspective of different disciplines. They aim to show, how evolutionary theory, sociology, and economics can mutually enrich each other. However, the differences between the evolutionary and the socio-economic perspective should be more clearly pointed out, because they usually deal with different research questions. Grandparents' well-being could be divided into its underlying components.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 33 , Issue 1 , February 2010 , pp. 33 - 34
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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