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?

I'm 32, I was 26 when my last grandparent died. I only started off with 2.

I am 43 and just have my lovely grandad left. DH had 3 grandparents until recently but sadly they all passed away in the last 10 months. My mum died before my Dcs were born and I will always be sad that they never got to meet their nana.

All my grandparents had passed away by the time I was 20, My Dad passed away 3 years ago I was 32. We don't last very long in my family, at least I don't get carried away worrying about pensions.

I'm sorry tell but I agree but I wonder if people having children at an older age will be balanced out by greater life expectancy.

Another consequence of people having children later is that they will be under pressure to combine their child raising years with caring for their sick and frail elderly parents.

Two generations of people having children in their early forties and the grandparents will be in their 80s when their first grandchildren come along. (this isn't a criticism I'm 35 and haven't had any yet so if I do will contribute to this trend)

Well it is to me in the context of this thread.

Surely it's only maternal and paternal grandparents that are relevant as there can be all sorts of age variations with step parents/ grandparents therefore they may well still be around in your 30's.

I did till I was 32, my paternal grandfather died at 97 in 2012 and my maternal gf died in 2014 aged 90. My gm are both still alive.
My DH still has 3 of his 4 grandparents.
When my older 2 dc were born they had 7 of 8 great grandparents and 4 grandparents.

DS technically has eight, actually.

My mum, my dad, my stepmum.
XP's mum, XP's dad (estranged), XP's stepdad (who DS knows as Grandpa)
DH's mum, DH's dad.

DH is effectively "dad" because "dad" has not been around since DS was two and he doesn't remember him, but he does know his grandparents.

I suppose you could discount my stepmum, who refuses to be Granny and goes by her name anyway, but you can't really discount the dads who have been actual dads, or the biological ones.

So he has Grandma, Granddad, Nanny, Grandpa, Nana and Pops. And and .

Step parents, biological Grandparents as a child is adopted, all kinds of ways to have 6.

DS1 isn't DH's offspring. He has my Mum, my Dad, his Dad's Mum, his Dad's Dad, he also has DH's Mum and her partner who he calls "nanna and papa" and my Mum has remarried, so he has her DH, who is also "papa A" and my Mum's DH's Mum who is "Nanny M". So he has 8. Plus I'm adopted, so technically speaking he has biological Grandparents, too. But I don't know those, so we don't count them.

DH is fifty and still has both grannies, both in their mid-nineties.

I'm 28 and it's quite likely mine will all be alive still in the next few years, although hard to say exactly as my mother is nc with her family so I've never met those grandparents. I think they are both alive.

Both grandparents had children young and my parents were early 20s when they had me.

Step parents in my case are all the same age as the actual parents so it doesn't make a difference. IME it's half siblings who tend to be ~ 10-15 years difference rather than step parents themselves.

But I am 26 and only have one left, and he's 90.

I'm 35 in a couple of weeks and have both on one side and none on the other.

I have 3. My late grandfather was a lot older than my other grandparents. I am very lucky, but at the same time I am feeling frightened to lose them as they are all getting very frail now. I also worry about the impact it will have on my own children, as they know them too. Selfish, I know.

31. Never had full set at birth. Paternal GM died in 2002. Paternal GF and Maternal GM died within a few weeks of each other in 2013 aged 93 and 94. I still think of them every day.

I was pregnant with DD and had been planning to wait until the 12 week scan to show them the picture and tell them in person (not local). I had a scare early on, but a heartbeat was found at about 6 weeks. I'm so glad I decided to tell them then over the phone (they were having lunch together) as they had both passed away before the 12 weeks

Unfortunately not. There's only one set of parents left (MIL & FIL). Obviously not the strongest gene pool...(I'm 37, DH is 40)!

I knew my paternal GF & GM (GF passed away when I was 9, GM when I was 20), and my maternal GM (GM passed away when I as 20). Mum never knew her dad though. Both of my parents had passed away before I was 34.

I love seeing great grandparents with the great grand children though and I really hope I live long enough to have this experience too.

No, am 32. They'd all died by the time I left primary school. Both parents had died before I was 30 as well. I don't think I'm too concerned about my pension!

I still had 3 at 30, now 'only' 2 grandmothers at 37 and they're 92 and 89. I count 3 as a full set as sadly my maternal grandfather was killed when my DM was only 5.

I should add I'm 37 now.

my gran died when i was 25 the rest all had died before i was born

I lost one grandparent when I was 1 another when I was 15 and another when I was 18. So no full set since 18. The one i got left with is a wife beating violent alcoholic. So don't consider him in my thinking.

DH was 11 when he lost one grandad and 29 when his nana died. The grandparents on his mums side both died when he was 37 within months of eachother.

DH won the grandparent lottery as far as I am concerned. They were all wonderful people. I miss them terribly I can't imagine how hard it is for dh.

I was born with all four grandparents alive.

My dad's dad died when I was 7 and his mom died when I was 31.

Both my mother's parents are still alive, they are in their late 70's.

I have both sets of Grandparents still. They are all still very active. I am 31.

I had a full set of grandparents, who I was very close to up until the age of 33. (My brother's two years older, so if he was posting, he would have been 35)

My last surviving grand parent died just after Xmas, I'm now 37.

Really strange not having them around. Don't know what to do with myself on a day off, now I dont have to jump in the car to go and visit

Not in your age range but I'm mid twenties with all grandparents, and I don't see any of them not being here in a couple of years time, they're all very active and some still working (but they are the crazy nans!)