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2023-04-09 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

'This isn't the retirement I'd planned': More than 2.4 million grandparents are raising grandkids, after the opioid epidemic and Covid ripped up families and upended plans decades in the making

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Posted by Skidmark 2023-04-09 11:51|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 You mean, this is the retirement Central Government planned for you, right Komrade?

Posted by swksvolFF 2023-04-09 13:16|| 2023-04-09 13:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Parents? I though Soviet Central planning dictated that males were not needed.

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-04-09 13:51|| 2023-04-09 13:51|| Front Page Top

#3 "It takes a village" or some such shit

Posted by Frank G 2023-04-09 14:56|| 2023-04-09 14:56|| Front Page Top

#4 The open borders policy has turned middle America into a trailer park full of broken families. Thanks Joe.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-04-09 16:23|| 2023-04-09 16:23|| Front Page Top

#5 Un-considered consequences are a bitch.

Posted by Anomalous Sources 2023-04-09 16:40|| 2023-04-09 16:40|| Front Page Top

#6 4% of the people over 65 are taking care of their grand-children. Isn’t life terrible? Are they counting couples? If so them it is only 2%. A better question is how much financial assistance does the government provide.

Posted by Pholurt Bluetooth6680 2023-04-09 17:25|| 2023-04-09 17:25|| Front Page Top

#7 I know a fair number of grandparents providing various degrees of care or support for grandchildren, for various reasons. As the ‘family genealogist’ I know this is nothing new. Reasons change with time but it’s probably why we have evolved with a lifespan of TWO generations.

Posted by Glenmore 2023-04-09 17:31|| 2023-04-09 17:31|| Front Page Top

#8 /\ A most interesting theory Glen.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-04-09 17:35|| 2023-04-09 17:35|| Front Page Top

#9 I saw this up close and personal.

The grandparents are, at least partially, motivated by guilt and have already raised, albeit sometimes poorly, their brood.

Their grandkids don't understand the abandonment and why Grandma and/or Grandpa seem so angry sometimes.

Posted by Anomalous Sources 2023-04-09 18:18|| 2023-04-09 18:18|| Front Page Top

#10 In 1930, for reasons unknown, wife’s grandmother left the family and disappeared; wife’s 3 year old mother was raised by great-aunt, who to this day remembers that pain. Wife’s mother raised eight kids, total of one divorced (after 20+ years). 15 grandkids, total of two divorced, and the ratio continues (I can’t count that high without paper even with my shoes off..)

Posted by Glenmore 2023-04-09 18:35|| 2023-04-09 18:35|| Front Page Top

#11 Do....Eh? What?
"AI" "Spam"

Posted by swksvolFF 2023-04-09 20:58|| 2023-04-09 20:58|| Front Page Top

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