In a society that has yet to begin acknowledging the tremendous impact that grandparents play in their role of grandparenting in the emotional development of their grandchildren, there are more grandparents raising grandchildren than their are children in any state foster care system.
http://momsblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2010/06/a-new-generation-of-parentingg.html
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