Image shows grandfather helping toddler grandson to put shoes on in a playroom setting. Headline reads 'Grandparents and childcare' with intro text: CPC-CG member Professor Athina Vlachantoni and CPC-CG Co-Director Professor Maria Evandrou recently wrote an article for The Conversation examining why white British families are more likely to depend on grandparents for childcare. Drawing on findings from the UK Household Longitudinal Study, Professors Vlachantoni and Evandrou from the University of Southampton discuss how employment patterns, cultural expectations, and health inequalities across ethnic communities shape family childcare arrangements, offering new perspectives on how intergenerational care connects to work, wellbeing and ageing in the UK. They explain: About two-thirds of people in the UK will become grandparents during their lifetime. Half of those grandparents will provide some form of care to their grandchildren. But who makes up that half depends on a number...