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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel grandparents Should absolutely step in and take care of their grandchildren! Back in the day… Grandparents would literally help raise kids… But now you can barely get a weekend out of grandparents! [/quote]

Many of us have been explaining that this is a myth in the US.  We who are older had good relationships with our grandparents but they were not in any way helping to raise us kids.[/quote]

It may not be true for you but it was true for many families. DP. [/quote]

It may have been true for you, but it wasn’t true for me (gen X), any of my friends or my Boomer parents.  There are always going to be exceptions but in America, being raised by your parents and grandparents at the same time has not been the norm.  [/quote]

My immediate family did not use grandparents for daily support - more like monthly. But I do have extended family members who relied on grandparent support to get by. GenX. Same was true for boomer generation as they were growing up.

There is no one “norm”. Families come in all shapes and sizes. 
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