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Grand(children) Plans For Thousands of Retired Coloradans

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Monday, May 5, 2008   

Denver, CO - Taking the kids to school and soccer practice cuts in on golf and relaxation time for thousands of retired Coloradans who find themselves raising their grandchildren. Today more than 51,000 kids in Colorado are being raised by grandparents.

A number of Colorado grandparents are joining hundreds of others from around the country for a "GrandRally" this week in Washington, D.C., where Ed Shelleby with the Children's Defense Fund says Congress is considering legislation to assist children being raised by grandparents and other relatives.

"The legislation would also do things like require child welfare agencies to let relatives know when parents lose custody of their children, and the kids are about to enter foster care, so that they can intervene beforehand."

Shelleby says the "Kinship Support Act" has bipartisan support in both House and Senate committees.

Dr. David Rubin with Safe Place: Center for Child Protection and Health in Philadelphia, says he's working on a study that will be released next month that shows that in most cases, the best place for kids displaced from their families is with relatives.

"There are major differences in terms of the risk of behavioral problems. Of children in kinship care, a third have behavioral problems, while nearly half of the kids who are in foster care have behavioral problems three years later."

Brigitte Castellano with the National Committee of Grandparents for Children's Rights says a second round of parenting is not an easy role to take on.

"We need some recognition for the fine work that relatives do raising these children. Picture all of these kids if we were not there. They would be in foster care."

More information about grandparents who raise their grandchildren and the National "GrandRally" is available on the Children's Defense Fund website, www.grandrally.org.


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