I wasn't. I heard a lady call into Sebastian Gorka's new talk show today who said that in Santa Clara County in Ca, there are approximately 33,000 of them raising their grandchildren. Cause? Her daughter found drugs at 13 and never recovered.
This situation can now be extended to the opioid crisis. Same effect. Who cares for the kids? Grandparents.
Hey Nancy you waste of a human skeleton, **BUILD THE DAMN WALL.
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Good article. Here's a snippet below.
(https://phys.org/news/2017-09-grandparents-grandchildren.html)
*Since the mid-1990s, several social conditions have caused the number of grandparents who are raising their grandchildren to increase.
Addiction and incarceration, child abuse and neglect, and economic factors all have contributed to a rise in the number of custodial grandparents. A recent Pew Trusts report documents how the current opioid epidemic is contributing to this trend. According to the CDC, drug overdose deaths in the United States have more than tripled from 1999 to 2015, and often leave children parentless.
The number of children placed in foster care has sharply increased, partially fueled by opioid and other drug use. When children are removed from their birth parents, federal law requires that state child protective services give preference to placement with relatives who, more often than not, are the grandparents.
Additionally, increased incarceration rates for women have changed family life. In the 1990s, female incarceration rates skyrocketed compared to the rate for fathers. Incarceration, addiction and neglect are often interconnected.
Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-09-grandparents-grandchildren.html#jCp*
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[–] T2Anon [S] ago
They come in over the open border to the SOUTH...