Children Grand Living with or Being During Cared Recession, for Primarily bya Grand parent Rose During Recession, Stabilized Thereafter Annual% change in number of children
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.
A Pew Research Center analysis of Census data found that 7.7 million U.S. children — about 10% of all children in the country — 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’s official end in mid-2009.
Children Grand Living with or Being During Cared Recession, for Primarily  | bya Grand parent Rose During Recession,  | Stabilized Thereafter  | Annual% change in number of children  | Bliving with grandparent  | Cared for by grandparent  | 5.9  | 5.  | 4.6  | 3.5  | 3.0  | 2.0 1.7  | 1.9 1.7  | Q. 1  | -0.4  | 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11  | Notes: Those being Cared for responsible by Grandparent" mostof include those whose co-resident of grandparent  | grandchild. Notes: reports Those being currently Cared for responsible by Grandparent" for mostof include the those basic whose needs co-resident of a co-resident grandparent  | grandchild. reports being  | Source: Pew Research Center analysis of American Community Survey (IPUMS)  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 