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DEAR TONYA: Money is a common problem for the nearly 2.4 million U.S. grandparents who are raising their grandchildren today. To help with the day-to-day expenses, there are a wide variety of ...
A report released early this year by the Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation found the number of grandparents and other kin raising kids in New Mexico rose by 20% between 2017 and 2023, from ...
The study found that while grandparents raising grandchildren are often under financial stress, they get very little support without legal custody under rules adopted by the Social Security ...
Susan J. Kelley is the former Dean of the College of Health and Human Sciences at Georgia State University.She is also currently a professor of Nursing and the Director of the National Center on Grandparents Raising Grandchildren, and founder and director of Project Healthy Grandparents, at Georgia State University.
According to a 2003 U.S. Census Bureau report, 2.4 million grandparents had primary responsibility for their coresident grandchildren younger than 18. [3] Among grandparent caregivers, 39 percent had cared for their grandchildren for 5 or more years. [4] 594,000 grandparents nationally are raising children below the federal poverty level. [5]
Out of this came The Supporting Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Advisory Council which will identify, promote, coordinate, and disseminate to the public information, resources, and the best practices available to help grandparents and other older relatives both meet the needs of the children in their care and maintain their own physical and ...
Dec. 18—U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Scranton, Chairman of the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, and Rep. Danny Davis (D-IL) this week introduced the Grandfamilies Act to support grandparents ...
Another study based on national survey data found that among adults aged 45–64, about one-third have at least one parent/parent-in-law and a younger grandchild. And in the sandwich generation, 58% only provide care to young grandchildren, 23% only provide care to parents or parents-in-law, 15% provide care to both generations. [18]