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Lucy Wigley

Mothers supported by maternal grandparents less ‘strict and controlling’ according to new study

Mother sat with her daughter and own mother.

A new study reveals mothers supported with childcare by their own parents, are more likely to be caring and less inclined to be authoritarian with their children.

More than half of grandparents look after grandchildren while their parents work, with a lot of parents trapped into living near grandparents as they have no other childcare options. Such is the involvement of older generations in caring for grandchildren, they can even be entitled to their own childcare credit.

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