{"id":19037,"date":"2013-09-18T00:01:53","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T05:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/%year%\/%monthnum%\/%day%\/after-recession-more-children-living-with-grandma-or-grandpa\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T03:44:28","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T08:44:28","slug":"after-recession-more-children-living-with-grandma-or-grandpa","status":"publish","type":"short-read","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2013\/09\/18\/after-recession-more-children-living-with-grandma-or-grandpa\/","title":{"rendered":"After recession, more children living with Grandma or Grandpa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hard times can act to bring families together, and the Great Recession of 2007-09 was no different: The number of children living with a grandparent surged after the onset of the recession, as did the number of children whose primary caregiver was that grandparent.<\/p>\n\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.pewresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/09\/SDT-grandparents-new-03.png\" width=\"427\" height=\"460\"><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Pew Research Center analysis of Census data found that <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/social-trends\/2013\/09\/04\/at-grandmothers-house-we-stay\/\">7.7 million U.S. children<\/a> &#8212; about 10% of all children in the country &#8212; were living in the same household as at least one of their grandparents in 2011, and for 3 million that grandparent also was their primary caregiver. Both trends stabilized at higher level after the recession&#8217;s official end in mid-2009.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In most cases\u00a0(71%), grandchildren living with a grandparent are actually living in the grandparent\u2019s household. This share rises to 94% among those children who are also being cared for primarily by a grandparent.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But living with or being cared for by a grandparent doesn&#8217;t mean parents are out of the picture: In 80% of cases where children are living with a grandparent, at least one of the child\u2019s parents also is in the household. And in more than half of the cases where children are both living with a grandparent and being cared for primarily by that grandparent, at least one of the child\u2019s parents is also present.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rather, these new multigenerational households likely are a byproduct of people losing their jobs, homes or both during the downturn. That shouldn&#8217;t perhaps come as much of a surprise:\u00a0A previous <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/social-trends\/2013\/08\/01\/a-rising-share-of-young-adults-live-in-their-parents-home\/\">Pew Research analysis<\/a>\u00a0found recent increases in the share of young adults living in their parents\u2019 homes; another Pew Research study documented general\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/social-trends\/2010\/03\/18\/the-return-of-the-multi-generational-family-household\/\">increases in multi-generational<\/a>\u00a0households, and other\u00a0researchers have pointed to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\/population\/www\/socdemo\/Inc-Opp-sex-2009-to-2010.pdf\">increases in cohabitation<\/a>\u00a0that have occurred in recent years as well.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2011, about 3 million U.S. children were living with and being primarily cared for 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