Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: Study Finds Child Care Assistance Growing

Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: Study Finds Child Care Assistance Growing:

"Our findings show that different groups of grandparents are likely to provide different types of care,” noted Linda Waite, sociology professor at the University of Chicago, in a statement. “Importantly grandparents with less income and less education, or who are from minority groups, are more likely to take on care for their grandchildren.”

All of that support is not easy for grandparents, some 60 percent of whom are also in the workforce, according to the Census. Waite notes in the paper that social services are increasingly leaning on family members to step in for parents who can’t care for their children, which has implications for public policy.

"Day care assistance may be particularly needed by middle-aged grandparents who are juggling multiple role obligations — as parent, a grandparent and a paid employee," Waite wrote.

In her research, Waite found that African-American and Hispanic grandparents are more likely than whites to begin and continue a multi-generation household or start a so-called “skipped-generation” household in which the child’s parents are not present.

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The First Grader

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The First Grader is a 2010 biographical drama film directed by Justin Chadwick, starring Naomie Harris, Oliver Litondo, and Tony Kgoroge, and based on the true story of Kimani Maruge, a Kenyan man who enrolled in elementary education at the age of 84 after the Kenyan government announced universal and free elementary education in 2003. The British-produced film was shot on location in the Rift Valley in Kenya, despite earlier reports that it would be filmed in South Africa. Director Justin Chadwick said: "We could have shot it in South Africa, but Kenya has this unbelievable, inexplicable energy - inherent in the children, and the people we were making the film about".

  Producers Sam Feuer and Richard Harding had previously released the short documentary film The First Grader: The True Story of Kimani N'gan'ga Maruge (2006).