00:00As people decide to have children later in life, that means grandparents are getting older.
00:05Experts say the demographic shifts may mean changing roles for grandparents within family dynamics.
00:11The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research made predictions of what the families of the future will look like.
00:17Experts found that family networks, measured by the number of biological relatives a person has, are going to get smaller.
00:25HuffPost notes that the drivers of this change are delayed childbearing and declining fertility rates.
00:30Experts also found that people in the future will likely have fewer siblings and cousins,
00:35but they're more likely to get to meet their great-grandparents.
00:38The researchers also found increasing age gaps between generations in families,
00:43leading to people becoming grandparents and great-grandparents at later ages.
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