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U.N. Event: Help Grandparents Raising Kids, In NY and Around the World

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Tuesday, April 3, 2007   


New York, NY - There are nearly half a million New York children in the care of grandparents -- but those grandparents don't have the same legal protections as parents do. An event Monday at the United Nations called attention to the needs of grandparents raising their grandchildren in New York and around the world. Recording artist Patti Page spoke at the event. She went from gold records in the 1950s to raising toddlers as a grandparent, and she says that raises a whole new set of challenges.

"Fortunately, mine were privileged because I had the money to take care of them, but there are some grandparents that do not have the money to take care of them, and they have no rights at all."

Page was at the UN to announce that New York will play host to an international summit next month on Grandparents Caring for Children, to provide help for the millions of grandparents worldwide who are raising young children.

New Yorker Brigitte Castellano formed the National Committee on Grandparents for Children's Rights to deal with the growing numbers of children who are growing up with few legal protections.

"In New York, according to the 2000 census, there were 413,000 children living with grandparents. We want to make sure that the kids that are in the care of grandparents have as many opportunities as all children deserve."

Grandparents face challenges in the U.S. and around the globe. Page made her comments at the Ugandan mission to the UN, because a third of the children who lose their parents to HIV and AIDS in that country end up in the care of grandparents. Here at home, Page notes the reasons range from family breakdown, to drug addiction and natural disaster.

"My daughter had these two little girls, the father was nowhere around, and she couldn't handle the situation, so we jumped in and handled it. And that meant taking the children to live with us."


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