Certainly most parents love their children. In fact, it’s the main responsibility of parents to take care and rear up their children. However, there are certain cases where the grandparents are the one raising their grandchildren.
Statistics even shows that about 52% of grandparents below the age of 55 are raising their grandchildren. There are about 31% that are in between the ages of 55 and 64 and for the age 65, about 17%. For the grandchildren, as young as the age of 6, there are about 51% that are living in their grandparent’s home. However, between the ages 6 and 11 is 29%, and for the ages 12 and 17, 20%. This is according to the U.S Bureau Census.
Here are some of the following reasons why grandparents rear their grandchildren.
These modern days there are many negative ways that are being learned by young children. Some grandparents are getting worried of what their grandchildren may learn. So they rear the child to shape the cultural and good personal identity of their grandchildren.
Grandparents are said to be well experienced in rearing a child since the parent of their grandchild is their own child. There are parents that are too busy working that they somehow come to neglect their own child. The grandparents may somehow see their grandchild not having a home. Due to this, they prefer to take care of the child themselves because they want to give them a place with home-like experience.
There are cases where the child’s parents died even at their younger age. The grandparents don’t want their grandchildren to go into foster homes. That’s why they took the responsibility of taking care of the child.
In some situation, the parent is either divorced or single parent. Grandparents usually can’t help it. They usually lend a hand and are of assistance to their child. But on other parents that have been contracted with illnesses that are contagious and would harm their grandchildren’s health, the grandparents usually take hold of the child’s responsibility.
Sad to say, there are bad parents that mistreat their children. Some of them neglect the child physically and emotionally where their immediate needs are not given. Some of them are being sexually abused, that would lead to trauma on the child. Financial help is also the most frequent reason given by grandparents who lived with grandchildren. With these sets of reasons, the grandparents are the one who take charge of their grandchildren.
These set of reason may differ. Situations vary in a case to case basis. But, grandparents that usually give their best for their grandchildren certainly love them so much.