Great article on modern parenting; lots of food for thought.

[BartHumphries]

http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/children/cb11-117.html Relevant quotes:

 

In 2009, 7.8 million children lived with at least one grandparent, a 64 percent increase since 1991 when 4.7 million children lived with a grandparent, according to a new report from the U.S. Census Bureau.

 

In 2009, 69 percent of the 74.1 million children under 18 lived with two parents. Four percent (2.9 million) of all children lived with both a mother and father who were not married to each other.

 

Apparently http://www.census.gov/hhes/socdemo/children/data/sipp.html provides more detailed data for people to parse.

[Tampa Turtle]

Parents may be living with Grandparents as part of economic conditions; that is the parents may still be intact and living with Grandmas since she still has a house.

 

Of course I have met a number of poor grandparents raising their grandkids cause Mom is strung out or in prison. They are darn well not gonna lose another one and will (literally)work themselves to death for that kid.

 

I am not saying that the status of the american family is not worse than it was at one time just that while it is bad it is not a total disaster either.