If you are a baby boomer, chances are you are also a grandparent. And the reason I’m so sure about that statement is because I learned from a Pew Research Center study that 83 percent of Americans over the age of 65 have grandchildren.
What this means is that 37 percent of households nationwide are headed by grandparents, and the number of homes that include grandparents and grandchildren is increasing at twice the average rate of U.S. households overall. In fact, in 2015, that number exceeded 50 million. Plus, 67 percent of those baby boomers with grandchildren have at least four of them. But when we factor in people between 50 and 64 years old, those two statistics drop to 52 percent and 47 percent.
