Intergenerational Relationship between Grandchildren and Grandparents – An overview

Indian culture is known for its age-old traditions and beliefs in joint family system. With the rapid growth of the Indian economy, there have been considerable changes in the lifestyle of younger generations. Geographical relocations for work and better opportunities have forced the younger generations to break away from their families and live away from home. This brings a huge change in eating habits, style of living, perspectives and communication patterns. Due to this, the child in the family lacks to know the past histories and traditional values of the family, it also creates gap between grandchildren and grandparents. They have less emotional intimate relationship with their grandparents. Thus, the purpose of the study is to know the intergenerational relationship between grandchildren and grandparents in the current scenario.