The father's parents are the paternal grandparents. The mother's parents are the maternal grandparents.
People don't have children to give them away to others, even if it is their parents. To be apart hurts and the big generation gap can also make it difficult for the child. Grandparents had their children and got to be parents and now they have a chance to be grandparents. There's a big difference between baby sitting and have full custody. When people get old and retire they start to feel it's their time and do things they always wanted. Having kids you can't always do that.
The father's parents are called grandparents.
Every person had parents and grandparents.
Your grandparents are your mother's or father's parents.
Great-Grandparents
Grandparents
maternal grandparents are your mothers parents therfore you must distinguish them from your paternal grandparents which are your fathers parents or things would get all mixed up. you would be saying your moms dad is your dads dad and things would get to seem like incest.
His parents were Pietist missionaries, and his maternal grandparents were religious publishers.
"Grand Parents" would be parents that would very good, so a simple sentence could be: She had grand parents. You probably meant grandparents, which are the parents of parents, so a sentence for that could be: Her grandparents loved her.
Atlas and Pleione or Aethra are the parents of Maia, and thus maternal grandparents of Hermes. Kronos and Rhea are the parents of Zeus, thus the paternal grandparents of Hermes.
extended family do include parents children and occasionally grandparents.