Worth Repeating: Grandparents Raising Grandchildren

“Worth Repeating” is a weekly feature on the EngAGE Blog that will bring you previous posts that we think are still timely, interesting, or just plain fun! From 12/18/14:

WORTH-REPEATING “Once the recession occurred, we actually saw a real uptick in the number of kids living with their grandparents, and now the numbers are close to 8 million,” says Gretchen Livingston, who has studied the trend for the Pew Research Center. “To put that in perspective, that means that about 1 in 10 kids are living with a grandparent.” Read more and listen to the NPR story here.

California leads the nation in increasing numbers of grandparents raising grandchildren. Read more here and learn about resources to help grandparent/grandchildren families.

 

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