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The Social Changes Transformed Today’s Grandparents The grand has been taken out of grandparent, leaving grandparents with a
The Social Changes Transformed Today’s Grandparents The grand has been taken out of grandparent, leaving grandparents with a
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2013-07-08
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The Social Changes Transformed Today’s Grandparents
The grand has been taken out of grandparent, leaving grandparents with all the responsibilities of raising a child. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, 3.7 million grandparents had grandchildren living with them, about 35% without a parent present. They cross social, economic and religious lines, and their numbers are rising.
Grandparents are often the safety net that catches children whom parents, fate and society fail—but not without strain to the net. If raising a child changes your life, raising a grandchild turns it upside down. Isolation is a common complaint among second-time parents. Social lives dwindle, as grandparents don’t fit in with younger parents yet can’t bring children to senior events. Late-life dreams get put on hold, while the expenses of child rearing create new financial challenges.
There is also emotional effect; fear of losing a child to disfunctional parents, grief at losing the grandparent role, and anger at the adult child who won’t parent. And there is the simple reality of age. "I’m not 25 anymore," says a 51-year-old grandmother. "Physically, I can’t do the things that a mom and a dad can do. We have the care, but we don’t have the youth."
Likely as not, the children themselves are victims of emotional hurt. "These children are suffering profound loss," says Sylvie de Toledo, founder of Grandparents as Parents (GAP), a California support network. "They come with everything from emotional, behavioral, academic and medical problems to physical disabilities from prenatal substance abuse."
Finally, these recycled parents are often forced to negotiate with an unfamiliar bureaucracy, seeking welfare assistance or legal custody, enrolling kids in school or getting medical care. "The underlying problem is that they don’t understand what their rights are and nobody can tell them," says Gerard Wallace, director of the Grandparent Caregiver Law Center in New York. There is little in law books to help; attorneys and social workers are often unsure bow existing laws apply.
What helps? Social workers and attorneys who strive to understand. Lawmakers who consider the needs of this population. And support groups, like GAP and those run by New York’s department for the aging, that offer resources and reduce isolation. Vickie Corbett, who lives with her grandchildren, started her own group in Rocky Mountain, N. C. , for that reason. "Honest to goodness, it saved my life," she says.
But Corbett also admits that her unexpected job has its rewards. "The best part," she says, "is when her granddaughter says after a bad day, ’ you know I love you and Grandpa more than anything in the world’ , and that makes it OK. " Some parts of being a parent are worth repeating.
The recycled parents could turn to those for help EXCEPT______.
选项
A、legislators who focus on these people
B、support groups for the aging
C、the U. S. Census Bureau
D、grandparents as Parents support network
答案
C
解析
事实细节题。根据题干关键词turn to those for help定位到原文的第六段:Whathelps?...Lawmakers who consider the needs of this population.And support groups,likeGAP and those run by New York’s department for the aging,that offer resources and reduceisolation.根据本段所提到的能为祖父母们提供帮助的机构或组织,只有[C]项“美国人口调查中心”未提及。
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