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Is it true that grand parents and grand children have more common genes? ?

Therefore,they are emotionally closer to each other than parents and children.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    I don't if it's true or not.The elders have seen there children grow and made mistakes,they have gone through much in life and now they are intelligent to accept life as it is.But parents are new to their roles and sometimes they expect too much from their kids,they expect them to achieve more than them and they focus only for the betterment of their lives so they are strict to their kids and so they are a little distant from their kids.

  • 1 decade ago

    Not at all. Your parents each passed on half of their genes to you, and you passed half of yours to your child. Therefore, the kid only has about one fourth of his genes in common with either grandparent. However, if you inherited a gene for a recessive trait and the child's other parent did as well, it may appear in the child whereas it didn't in either of his parents.

    Also, grandparents feel less guilty about spoiling their grandchildren than parents do, so that helps a bit with bonding. :]

  • c m
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    i have never heard that, i dont think that genes have anything to do with how emotional we are with someone, i think grandparents sometimes are able to give more quality time & may be more attentive because they dont have as much going on as the childs parents, & have learned from how they were with their own children..

    Source(s): grandmother of 8
  • 1 decade ago

    i wouldnt say ther emotionally closer but the may see eye to eye on a lot more things

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Uh...you know how genes are passed on, right? So think about it. Of course they don't have more common genes - that's complete nonsense.

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