Divorce is a common factor involved in creating remote style of grandparenting. Especially for the grandparents on the

, divorce can make it difficult for grandparents to keep in touch with their grandchildren.

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Divorce is a common factor involved in creating remote style of grandparenting. Especially for the grandparents on the 
 
, divorce can make it difficult for grandparents to keep in touch with their grandchildren.

BlackTom AI · Accepted Answer

Grandparents on the father's side are often the ones most affected when divorce reduces contact with grandchildren, so the correct completion is "father's" and "side."

1) Relevant knowledge points and concepts
- Styles of grandparenting include remote (distant), companionate, and involved. The remote style means grandparents have little direct contact.
- Divorce is a well-documented risk factor for the remote grandparenting style because it can disrupt family ties, custody arrangements, and visitation patterns.
- Sociological research shows that paternal (father’s) grandparents tend to lose contact more often after divorce than maternal (mother’s) grandparents, who usually maintain stronger ties via the custodial mother.

2) Step-by-step reasoning
- The sentence: "Divorce is a common factor involved in creating remote style of grandparenting. Especially for the grandparents on the ____, divorce can make it difficult for grandparents to keep in touch with their grandchildren."
- The phrase needs a possessive to identify which side of the family: "father's" or "mother's." The idiomatic expression describing which branch of the family is being referred to is "on the [father's/mother's] side."
- Given the sociological point that paternal grandparents are especially likely to be cut off after divorce, "father's" is the appropriate choice for blank 1.
- Blank 2 completes the idiom: "side." Without "side" the phrase is incomplete ("on the father's" would need a noun to finish).

3) Intermediate linguistic steps
- Choose possessive form: father → father's (to indicate "the father's relatives").
- Add the noun "side" to make the common collocation "on the father's side."

4) Why this answer is correct
- It matches the conventional English phrasing and reflects the empirical point that divorce often isolates paternal grandparents, producing a remote grandparenting style.

5) Why other options are incorrect
- "Mother's side" would contradict the typical pattern described (maternal grandparents usually retain contact).
- Non-possessive forms like "father side" are ungrammatical in this context.
- Synonymous term "paternal side" would be acceptable in meaning but does not match the provided correct answers.

6) Conclusion
The completed phrase is: "Especially for the grandparents on the father's side, divorce can make it difficult for grandparents to keep in touch with their grandchildren." This matches the provided answer: "father's", "side."

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