Betty Cornelius is President and Founder of Cangrands National Kinship Support, a Canadian organization. Tammy Brockhaus is 61 years of age, and widowed. She coordinates the Cangrands group in Huntsville, Ontario. They are both grandparent kinship carers. Among many tasks, they are activists for changes in law needed to establish grandparents’ rights relative to kinship caring. The explain kinship caring and why it’s needed, and describe their own family experiences to illustrate the value of kinship caring for grandchildren. They discuss the challenges faced by them and others like them, such
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