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Grandparents Raising Grandchildren:  The Facts

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Some grandparents might have limit energy and physical health problems to raise their grandchildren. To raise their grandchildren, some grandparents might become the workforce and re-enter the workplace.

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Some grandparents may start their role grieving the actual or emotional death of their children. They have feelings of failure, guilt, and embarrassment.

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For some retired grandparents, as they do not have enough pension or money, they need to re-enter the workplace to support grandchildren’s living.

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Grandparents spend more time to look after their grandchildren that reduce their time to socialize with their friends and partners.

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Grandparents may feel they have physical custody of the child but not legal custody. Gaining legal custody or guardianship can be a costly process and requires the termination of the rights from grandparents to parents.

If you have some interests to learn more about the custody and guardianship, please visit this website: https://www.parentsupportbc.ca/grandparents-raising-grandchildren/

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Open grandparents’ involvement program: 

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Open grandparents’ involvement program: 

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Active grandparents can share their experiences and techniques of raising grandchildren.

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  Why grandparents raise their grandchildren?                             

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  Why grandparents raise their grandchildren?                             

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1. A parent’s drug or alcohol abuse

2. A parent dies

3. Child abuse

4. A parent has a serious or terminal illness

5. A parent has been incarcerated

6. A parent is experiencing mental illness

7. Parental unemployment

8. Divorce or desertion has changed the family

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"Grandparents Raising their Grandchildren family is  one in which a child lives with one or both grandparents without the presence of  a parent or middle generation" ( Wilson, 2013, p.345).

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             Challenges of this type of family

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             Challenges of this type of family

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When grandparents provide care to grandchildren, they refill the meaning of life.

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To raise grandchildren can keep them young, active and “in shape”.

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Grandparents can build new social net-works and experience emotional self-fulfillment in being able to support the positive development of young generation.

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Grandparents can pass down family cultures and traditions to their grandchildren. Children enhance their awareness of identity that they are members of this family.

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                        Tips for educators to cope with this type of family

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                        Tips for educators to cope with this type of family

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Apply activities that involve the information of grandparents raise their grandchildren:

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Apply activities that involve the information of grandparents raise their grandchildren:

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Educators can read books about grand parenting.

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Use children’s learning portfolio as a communication tool for children’s caregivers and biological parents.

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Educators can organize family events on Grandparents Day (the second Sunday in September).

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By visiting children's family, educators can know about grandparents’ techniques and struggles in raising their grandchildren. Educators can reflect to adjust their educational strategies for fostering children’s social skills.

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Educators can invite families to attend events,  such as  potluck and movie night. Those events can provide opportunities for new families to know each other.

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Wilson, L. (2013). Partnerships: Families and Communities in Early Childhood. Toronto: Nelson Education.

American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. (2019). American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy: Grandparents Raising Grandchildren. Retrieved from https://www.aamft.org/Consumer_Updates/grandparents.aspx

Fuller-Thomson, E. (2005). Grandparents Raising Grandchildren in Canada:

A Profile of Skipped Generation Families (Working paper No. 132).Hamilton, Ontario: SEDAP, McMaster University.
Grandparents raising their grandchildren.  (2014).
Retrieved from:https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/81260/1/Fuller-Thomson%20grandparents%20raising%20grandchildren%20in%20canada.pdf

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                 Benefits of this type of family

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                 Benefits of this type of family

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Statistics of this type of family in Canada

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Statistics of this type of family in Canada

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Statistics Canada (2003) data indicate that between 1991 and 2001 there was a 20% increase in the number of children under 18 years old who were living with their grandparents with no parents present in the household. This household structure is defined as a “skipped generation” (Statistics of Canada, 2003).

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1. https://www.helpguide.org/articles/parenting-family/grandparents-raising-grandchildren.htm

2.https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/evidence-based-living/201709/when-grandparents-raise-their-grandchildren

3.https://www.ag.ndsu.edu/publications/home-farm/when-grandparents-become-parents-to-their-grandchildren

4.https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/11/181102083452.htm

5. https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2012CFD0004-000091
6.https://www.childwelfare.gov/pubPDFs/grandparents.pdf