Glam-mas

Hands-off grandmothers reluctant to care for their grandchildren.

Reporting on an apparent deficit in grandmaternal doting, Joanne Kaufman wrote in The New York Times:

Thoroughly modern grandmothers, so-called glam-mas, “feel they’ve put in their time,” Ms. Barash [a gender-studies expert] said. “They were devoted to children to the exclusion of their own freedom, and they’re not looking to repeat the mothering process with their grandchildren.”

In other words, it may take a village to raise a child, but these days the village may be more heavily populated with nannies than nanas.

One glam-ma, who made it clear to her daughter that she had no interest in baby-sitting, told The New York Times: “I raised two children whom I love dearly. … I was a stay-at-home mom. Then I discovered when I started my own career that there was a whole other world out there.”