In the News

Here you can find Rachel quoted in print or on the air.

NEWSPAPERS

• “Americans are having fewer babies - So fewer people get to be grandparents” in the Wall Street Journal, September 2024

• “Grey divorce in Canada” in Global News, February 2024

• “The unique joy of grandparent grandchild relationships” in the Globe & Mail, January 2024

• “Baby boomers are aging. Their kids aren’t ready” on Vox.com, October 2023.

• “Aging alone: Who will care for 1M “kinless” Americans?” on Advisory Board, June 2023.

• “All by ourselves: Growing numbers of Canadians are aging without a partner or children nearby” in the Ottawa Citizen, March 2023.

• “Who will care for kinless seniors?” in the New York Times, December 2022.

• “London’s population predicted to grow by more than 200,000 in 30 years” in CBC, December 2022.

• “The cost of the untethered lifestyle” in Deseret News, December 2022.

• “6.6 percent of Americans over 55 have no family to care for them as they age” on the Post Millenial, December 2022.

• “As kinless seniors age, problems arise” in Legal Reader, December 2022.

• “Nearly 40,000 kids in the U.S. who lost a parent to Covid need immediate support” in Western News, April 2021.

• “Covid concern starts to shift to workers and their kids” in London Free Press, April 2021.

• “Albertans should expect a baby bust - not boom - and fewer people tying the knot, statistics reveal” on CBC, February 2021.

• “Coming out of Covid: Hopefully a gentler, kinder world” in Guelph Today, January 2021.

• “Divorce data murky, but still revealing” was published in the Western News and Phys.org, February 2020.

• “Grandparents assuming more child care duties - and risk- during pandemic” in the London Free Press, July 2020.

• “Does having kids get a bad rap?” in the New York Times, October 2014.

• “Older parents find more joy in their bundles” in the New York Times, April 2011.

Radio & Podcasts

• The Phenomenon of Kinless Seniors discussed on NPR station WOSU, January 2023

• Rachel was a guest on The Annex Sociology Podcast discussing “Loneliness: A look at loneliness from a social science and sociological perspective, March 2021.

• Rachel discussed her research on Canadian parental benefits and their effects on keeping couples together on local talk radio, January 2021.

• Rachel discussed the concept of health grandparenthood on CTV, October 2017.