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Grandparents play role in driving Chinese expansion

In China, when working-age adults migrate, leaving the elderly to care for their children, it occupies a culturally sanctioned role within the family and also helps to fuel the Chinese economy. A new USC study has found that grandparents living in three-generation households or with grandchildren in skipped-generation households in rural China have a more positive attitude than those living by themselves.

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