Interesting questions from Jay Parkinson:

“How do we understand the sequelae of a generation that’s getting married at an average age of 28?If people are getting married later and having children later, then those children will have parents that die sooner. How will children whose parents die when they are teenagers deal with having no parents as
twenty and thirty-somethings? Will this make their lives less happy? Even more so, what will come of their kids who grow up with no grandparents?

But I wonder about the underlying trends Jay puts forwards: after all, the average age of marriage in the US may have risen by five years since 1970, but average life expectancy has risen by eight years. Will these kids have fewer parents and grandparents? Or merely older ones?