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altibaby

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Which statement best describes households in which grandparents are taking care of their grandchildren?
 
  a. Grandparents often have physical or mental health problems that could make caring for a child difficult.
  b. Child welfare agencies have usually intervened on behalf of the child.
  c. Almost 2 million children live only with their grandparents and are cared for by those grandparents.
  d. When grandparents get involved in childrearing, it is usually because the parent is dead.

Question 2

Lamar and his wife Kay are both in their early 60s and are raising two grandchildren on their own. How common is this situation of grandparents raising their grandchildren without the children's parents present?
 
  a. Almost 1 million children live with a grandparent without their parent present, but the number has declined in the last decade.
  b. Of those children living with a grandparent, the majority of them do not have their own parents present.
  c. It is rare for children to live alone with a grandparent; usually their own parents are living with them also.
  d. Roughly one in 70 children lives with a grandparent, and in almost half of these cases, they do not have their own parent present.



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Answer to Question 1

a

Answer to Question 2

b



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