Since the Start of the Great Recession, More Children Raised by Grandparents

Since the Start of the Great Recession, More Children Raised by Grandparents, by Gretchen Livingston and Kim Parker, Pew Research Center

  • “About four-in-ten (41%) of those children who live with a grandparent (or grandparents) are also being raised primarily by that grandparent, according to the census data. This figure — 2.9 million children2 — rose slowly throughout the decade and it, too, spiked from 2007 to 2008. In that single year, there was a 6% increase. The phenomenon of grandparents serving as primary caregivers is more common among blacks and Hispanics than among whites, but the sharpest rise since the recession began has been among whites. The number of white grandparents primarily responsible for their grandchildren rose by 9% from 2007 to 2008, compared with an increase of just 2% among black grandparents and no change among Hispanic grandparents.”
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