Baldwin County public school students return to class three weeks from today. Some families still need to get registered and the district has a special session today in Loxley to help people overcome ...

Moreover, grandparents are, hands down, the most common child-care providers for families after parents, particularly for young children: As of 2005, the most recent data, grandparents cared for ...

JONESBORO, Ark. (KAIT) - The Arkansas Grandparents Raising Grands Foundation wants change beyond the state’s borders. K8 News ...

Mrs. Elizabeth Smith is 83 years old, battling cancer and has raised her ­great-grandchildren ages 16, 13 and 8 all of their lives. Since infants, the girls have been raised by Ms. Smith and her ...

Grandparents who help out occasionally with childcare or provide support to others in their community tend to live longer than seniors who do not care for other people, according to a study from ...

Grandparents like him are taking in a generation of children who have lost the care of a parent, often from drug addiction, mental illness, and premature COVID deaths.

Grandparents who stopped looking after their grandchildren during the Covid-19 pandemic were considerably more likely to experience depressive symptoms compared to those who continued to care for ...

2.4 million American grandparents who are raising their grandchildren. They are the primary caregivers for nearly 3 million of the country’s children. They’re often doing it without financial ...

said they will be providing care every day during the school holidays, and a third (33%) will help out two to three times a week. But the rising cost of entertaining grandchildren is causing concern, ...

Atlantic Street Center, meanwhile, had run a grandparents’ group since the mid-1990s, but eventually, Matthews says, “we realized that the grandparents had all these kids they were caring for.” ...