Grandparents Raising Grandchildren

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns that older adults and people with underlying chronic health conditions are at increased risk for…

A new study has found that when grandparents were either the main caregiver or lived in the home with children, the children had a 30 percent increased…

We end our weeklong look at our best stories from 2017, where we stepped into the archives to retell some of our favorite stories from last year.This…

In 2016, 40 percent of Lakewood Elementary School students were being raised by a grandparent. That’s a stunning statistic considering that kids being…

Grandchildren being raised by grandparents often spend months or even years of their lives bouncing from one home or situation to another. Inconsistency…

At the Kanawha County circuit court, the Roberts family is celebrating. Today, Andy and Debbie have adopted their grandchildren, Preston, age 6, and…

At the Epsworth United Methodist Church in Ripley, West Virginia, five grandparents sit around a table listening to a speaker tell them, “You are not…

In 2014, more than a third of all children who were removed from their homes due to parental alcohol and drug use were placed with relatives. In many…

As the opioid crisis continues to impact Appalachia, children are being left behind. This morning we have the first of a series of stories about…