The Family Weekly: There’s No Easy Way to Talk About Wanting Grandkids
Plus: The history of family separations, an examination of roommate relationships, and fertility apps.
This Week in Family
The importance of having tough conversations came up in stories about two very different kinds of relationships: those between family members and those between complete strangers.
When the writer Robin Marantz Henig started pining for grandchildren, bringing up the topic with her daughters seemed it’d be like entering” when it comes to asking adult children about their plans for childbearing, and that it’s best to approach the conversation with a lot of empathy—a parent and their adult child might have very different visions of the child’s family.
