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About 7 million grandparents live in households with their grandchildren.
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Howard Gleckman, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024
In the cold winter of 1945 in Minnie, Kentucky, Sizemore Branch, my grandparents sat by a warm fireplace waiting for news about their son fighting in Germany.
—Melanie Laughman, The Enquirer, 11 Sep. 2024
He was raised by his grandparents Maggie and John Henry Connolly; his father left home before he was born.
—Jill Leovy, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2024
Abandoned first by his father and then by his mother, he was raised by his grandparents in Michigan, on a farm.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 17 Sep. 2024
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Howard Gleckman, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024
In the cold winter of 1945 in Minnie, Kentucky, Sizemore Branch, my grandparents sat by a warm fireplace waiting for news about their son fighting in Germany.
—Melanie Laughman, The Enquirer, 11 Sep. 2024
He was raised by his grandparents Maggie and John Henry Connolly; his father left home before he was born.
—Jill Leovy, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2024
Abandoned first by his father and then by his mother, he was raised by his grandparents in Michigan, on a farm.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 17 Sep. 2024
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“Grandparent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grandparent. Accessed 4 Oct. 2024.
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grandparent
noun
grand·par·ent
ˈgran(d)-ˌpar-ənt 
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: a parent of one's father or mother
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