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"Deciding to decide", a delicate process of deciding when and who will supercede a grain farmer in the operation of the farm and care of the land, was shown to have stretched across a longer span of time.","The key lesson from this study is that the lengthening of the life span and functional work life has created conditions potentially destabilizing for the two-generational farm family and property transfer system. The long-term allocation and sequencing of people and land may more easily fit a three-generational model. The consequences include keeping youth dependent on their elders for a longer period of time, delaying the youth to adulthood transition as well as having the elders deal with younger generations for a longer period of time in order to synchronize the transferal of land. For most of the U.S., the grandparental role may be largely inactive except for ceremonial occasions. 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