A force that's quietly upending the work and retirement of millions of older Americans.
Bill Pendleton watches Audrey Pendleton, 15, play the violin at their home in Draper, Utah, in 2014. The Pendletons are among a growing number of families across the country that find grandparents raising their grandchildren, with varying or no participation from the children's parents.
The decline in grandparent caregiving among black children follows the larger decline in the share of black children living in poverty. The limited data available on the Native American population shows a large and rising share of grandparents in those communities are also taking care of grandkids. The fastest-in-the-nation increase in children being cared for by grandparents was in South Dakota and concentrated in counties with large Native populations.
The 72-year-old from Old Town, Maine, northeast of Bangor, has raised more than 150 foster children. She has adopted at least eight children and given birth to three more. A national organization named her Maine’s 2018 Mother of the Year. “Care decisions are sometimes driven by the needs of the grandchildren’s parents, rather than the circumstances of grandparents,” Lumsdaine said. “The birth of a new grandchild increases the chances that a grandmother will provide care by nearly 70 percent.”
In a 2013 analysis in Marriage and Family Review of caregivers in rural Montana, Sandra J. Bailey and her collaborators found that “for many grandparents in our study, retirement became a distant or unreachable goal.”
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