Betty Cornelius and Sherry Johnson are kinship caregivers. Kinship caregivers are often grandparents, but they may be aunts, uncles, cousins, or others who are caring for children or youths in need of care or protection. Kinship caregiving is the full-time nurturing and protection of a child who is the caregiver’s kin but not a son or daughter. Betty and Sherry share with us their stories as grandparents as kinship caregivers. They talk about support groups they founded or have experience with. They identify the children’s health conditions that so often create the call for kinship caregiving.
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