Family relationships don't seem to be as valuable. Trivia, do Grandparents spend

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more on their grandchildren or their pets? I posted this as trivia and it is turning into a good discussion, because the answer is, that more is spent on pets then on grandchildren. It seems that to often people don't see or even really know their grandparents anymore. I know it is hard especially when they are out of state, my Grandmother was out of state but I knew her and knew her well. I learned a great deal from my grandparents, especially my grandmothers. But with divorces, and separations, and the whole need to be young to often the whole grandparent/grandchild relationship seems to get lost. Grandparents never divorce their grandchildren but sometimes they get lost and the kids don't get to see them when a divorce happens. I learned a great deal from my family relationships, I grew up thinking that cousins were brothers and sisters that lived in a different house, we stayed with them, they stayed with us it was close. Now I don't know so many of them, who they are or who they have become, I tried, but people get so busy they seem to forget family. I suppose that when someone never sees a grandchild, and finds companionship in a pet then they turn to that pet, and so yes they spend more on pets than on grandchildren. What do you think about the fact that to often are families are so dysfunctional that they become disposable?