The love for their grandchildren, what is the secret?

In the new study found that children placed strongly with his maternal grandparents. Researchers have been trying to figure out how to communicate frequently grandparents too personal with their grandchildren. Slightly more than a quarter of the relatives of the mother was told that she. To see their grandchildren once a week, and only 15% were relatives of the father In the Netherlands, more than 800 grandparents participated in the study. Tried to set the value of social interaction between family members. About 30% of the grandparents on the maternal side, live within 30 km, saw their grandchildren every day or several times a week. Paternal in the same circumstances, only 15%. Thomas Pollet (Thomas Pollet) from Newcastle University, said. In families where there is a divorce it from differences, the relatives of the mother, further efforts to make to communicate with his grandchildren Scientists believe that this behavior is influenced by psychological factors, because historically that the woman is related to the child, maternity, while a man never completely sure that the biological father of the child.