"Skip generation" households, grandparents raise children's children.OTTAWA Ottawa, city, Canada Ottawa (ŏt`əwə), city (1991 pop. 313,987), capital of Canada, SE Ont., at the confluence of the Ottawa and Rideau rivers. Hull, Que. -- For many grandparents grandparents npl → abuelos mpl grandparents grand npl → grands-parents mpl grandparents grand npl , later life is a time for enjoying the benefits of retirement. But thousands are finding themselves in an unusual position--raising their children's children. according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Statistics Canada Canada (kăn`ədə), independent nation (2001 pop. 30,007,094), 3,851,787 sq mi (9,976,128 sq km), N North America. Canada occupies all of North America N of the United States (and E of Alaska) except for Greenland and the French islands of . In 2001, a total of 56,700 grandparents, or 1% of all grandparents, were living with their grandchildren GRANDCHILDREN, domestic relations. The children of one's children. Sometimes these may claim bequests given in a will to children, though in general they can make no such claim. 6 Co. 16. without either of the child's parents involved, according to a report based on census data that appears in Canadian Canadian (kənā`dēən), river, 906 mi (1,458 km) long, rising in NE New Mexico. and flowing E across N Texas and central Oklahoma into the Arkansas River in E Oklahoma. social trends. These households, which consist of grandparents, grandchildren and no middle generation, are sometimes referred to as "skip-generation households." Two-thirds of the grandparents in these households were women, and just under one-half (46%) were retired. Data from the 2001 Census showed that 56,800 children lived with these grandparents. Of these youngsters, just under one-half, or 25,200, were aged 14 or younger. These children accounted for 0.4% of the total population in this age group, about the same proportion as in 1991. Provincially, the proportion of children aged 14 and under in skip-generation households was highest in Saskatchewan. There, 1.2% of grandchildren in this age group lived alone with a grandparent, three times the national average; The highest proportion, 2.3%, was in Nunavut, more than five times the national average. However, in Quebec, only 0.2% of grandchildren aged 14 or under lived alone with a grandparent, and in Ontario, only 0.3% did so. Census data also showed that nearly two-thirds (65%) of grandparents in skip-generation households were financially responsible for the household. The 56,700 grandparents who lived in skip generations in 2001 accounted for about 12% of the more than 474,400 grandparents who shared households with their grandchildren. The census provided a breakdown of these shared households, based on various generations living in them. A majority of grandparents, about 242,800, or 51%, lived in multi-generation households, that is, with their adult child, his or her spouse spouse A legal marriage partner as defined by state law , and the grandchildren. This could include the so-called "sandwich" generation in which the middle generation, particularly women, care for both children and elderly parents. |
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