Parental grandparents find support
Hattiesburg American - Hattiesburg, Mississippi, ,USA
It is common for grandparents who are raising a grandchild to suffer from the same health problems as other seniors, including diabetes, arthritis, ...

Gautier woman starts non-profit organization
Pascagoula Mississippi Press - Pascagoula, MS, USA
The goal of Grans is to promote grandparents raising their grandchildren and to get them any assistance they may need. Sullivan said the relief can be ...
 

House cranks out bills, hits deadline
Jackson Clarion Ledger - Jackson, MS, USA
Giving Mississippi grandparents monthly payments for raising their grandchildren was one of several dozen House bills passed by Thursday's deadline to get ...

HEALTH-RELATED SUPPORT GROUPS
Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal - Tupelo, Mississippi, USA
Grandparents Raising Grandchildren meets at 5:15 pm the second Tuesday of each month at the Exchange Club Family Center behind Stout’s Carpets on Skyline ...
 

Family ties strong with young members
Hattiesburg American - Hattiesburg ,MS, USA
... The Williamses are part of a growing trend of grandparents raising grandchildren, or in their case, great-grandchildren. They adopted ...

Little public help for grandparents as parents
Laurel Leader Call - Laurel, MS, USA
... Yet, she said, grandparents are increasingly asked to take on the responsibility of raising them without ... and physical challenges the children represent. ...

Grandparents as parents is booming national trend
Laurel Leader Call - Laurel, Mississippi, USA
Editor’s note: The phenomenon of grandparents raising their grandchildren in times of need or ... Now, more than 6 percent of the nation’s children reside in ...

Support available in the Pine Belt
Laurel Leader Call - Laurel, MS, USA
... offers support groups in Smith, Covington, Jones, Forrest and Jackson counties for relatives who for one reason or another are raising children rather than the ...

Grandparents still raising children
Hattiesburg American - Hattiesburg, Mississippi, USA
... We joined the ranks of the new phenomenon, grandparents raising children. No, make that great-grandparents raising children. Until ...