To ask if anyone past 30 still has a full set of grandparents?

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I'm mid 30s and have one grandparent left. Most people I know of a similar age are in a similar boat 0-2 grandparents still alive.

Out of curiosity really, has anyone been lucky enough to have made it past 30 with the 'full set' of two grandfathers and grandmothers?

My husband is 37 this year and up until last year he had all four. His paternal GF passed last year and his paternal GM passed last month. The other two are still going strong, his maternal GF is 92 and still horseriding (when he can get away with it). His grandmother is 86 but looks 60!

I don't have any left, I lost mine at 6, 10, 25 and 27.

Am 36. No grandparents left as of this Xmas

My husband is almost 40 and still has all his grandparents. Very lucky I know. Oldest is 89.

When my child turns 30 their grandparents will all only be early 70s so very likely they will all still be here.

I had 5 out of 6 until I was 16.

My grandmother
My grandpa
My grandfather
My step grandma and my step grandmother.

Then my grandfather and step grandmother died with in a couple of years of each other.

The other three are still going at 90, 90 and 78. I'm 36.

I think I've been lucky in having them and also acquiring additional 'spares'!

It would be almost impossible for me to have great grandparents still living due to what age my parents and grandparents had children.

I'm 31, haven't any living grandparents for years or parents

My paternal granddad died about 20 years before I was born, then my maternal granddad died when I was 14 - he was my favourite grandparent and the one I miss most. My maternal grandmother died when I was 17 and my paternal grandmother when I was 19. Tbh I only met my paternal grandmother a number of times in my life and she was a bit of an interfering old biddy.

The last one of DH grandparent's died when he was 24.

I'm 34 and had both sets until late last year. Lost one grandpa in November and then 5 weeks later the other one. Now two grannies left.

I had 4 when I was born, I'm now almost 30 and I only have one grandparent left and she's not very nice

My maternal GF died when I was 19.

But I was 35 with the other 3 still around - paternal GF died in 2010, maternal GM died in 2012 and paternal GM died in 2013 (paternal GPs anniversaries are 3 weeks apart, although 3 years too, and maternal GPs anniversaries are also 3 weeks apart although 18 years apart).

Maternal GF was 76, Maternal GM was 96.
Paternal GF was 90 and Paternal GM was 93.

Good genes in my family.

DH never met maternal GF. His maternal GM died when he was early 20s (middle of the night he home from Uni having just finished his finals - so he saw her before falling into bed).

His paternal GM was when he was 26, and we were going out. His paternal GF was only 4 months later, but he knew we were engaged by then.

All 8 were natural causes (old age and illness complicating some of those).

I'm 48 and had all four until I was 45. Three are left, ages 98, 90 and 89.

All my GPS were dead by the time I was 5

I do also remember paternal (on his maternal line) GGM being alive - I was 4 when she died and I think she was either 98 or a little over 100 - 101/102? - but a very good age, particularly for the 1970s. But I think the others were all long dead by then.

So sorry for everyone's losses.

I'm early forties, two of my GP died before I was born, a third when I was about two or three and the last one in my late thirties.

Three of DH's GP died before he was born and his surviving GM died before DC1 (Y11) was born but I got to meet her.

The DC have three; I never met my FIL as he died when DH was a child.

No - none. When I was born I only had 1 Grandparent. My mothers' parents died before I was born - both in their 60s. My father's father died when my dad was 3 in 1940. My father's mother died when I was 25. She was 94.

I'm 33 and have none. Maternal GF died in 1986, Paternal GF in 1997, Maternal GM in 2001 and Paternal GM last year. I look at our parents, though, and think that our DC's do stand a chance of reaching 30 and still having a full set (DH's Father died when DH was 9 so I don't count him); they're still very young and fit, and people are living much, much longer now, so they might just do it.

My DF's parents both lasted until my 30s though having seen the affects of dementia I wish they both hadn't lived quite so long. DM's adopted parents died when I was 4 or so. Her birth mother died when I was in my 20's. DH had 3 grandparents in his 30's. Now has both grannies left.

I have been thinking about this a lot lately. Losing grandparents in or even before childhood is becoming an increasingly unintended consequence of people having children later in life.

Both my parents have been taken ill with long term degenerative diseases and have little or no quality of life ahead of them. Age was a huge risk factor in both their illnesses, coupled with a huge dose of bad luck.

They were older parents by standards at the time (36 and 42) when they had me, I had my children at 32 and 35.

It saddens me tremendously that my children will not have their maternal grandparents in their life. That incredible bond with someone who can be such an influential playmate and role model is gone. I lost three of my grandparents before I was three years old and always wish I had had a chance to know them better.

* increasingly becoming, excuse my grammar!

My husband is nearly 39 and has both sets.

I lost mine when I was pretty young. I do have one nan who is 99 but I have never really been in contact with her.

I'm baffled- how do some people have 6 grandparents?

Step parents?

I work for a care service. We care for a number of couples in their 90's who will typically have children 65 - 70 and several grandchildren 30 +so not uncommon. In my own family we tend to have our children quite late, so my grandmothers both remembered Queen Victoria's funeral and were long since gone by the time I was 30.

Sorry he doesn't have both sets.

He has nan and granddad and one grandad on the other side. His nan died when he was 34.

" I'm baffled "
use your imagination, it is not that confusing surely?