Grandparents are the rock | Philadelphia Daily News | 09/28/2007

In Philadelphia alone, one in six children, more than 60,000, are being raised by a relative, often a grandparent. Statewide, over 80,000 grandparents, from their 40s to their 80s and 90s, are successfully raising and parenting grandchildren, while more than six million children are being raised in households headed by grandparents across the country. An estimated 2.5 million children are in households without any parent at all. This phenomenon of kinship care cuts across all racial, economic and geographic lines.