Grandparents Increasingly Fill Need As Caregivers

The Washington Post reports that the number of children being raised by their grandparents has risen sharply since the start of the recession in 2007, according to a new Pew Research Center study that found one in 10 children in the U.S. now lives with a grandparent. That’s 2.9 million children. You can read details of the story here.

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