Have you come upon anything in the research that suggests that Barry’s grandparents applied for guardianship or even adoption of their grandson? I know that if I had a child who abandoned one of her own children to my care, I would want some legal arrangement. Especially where the mother was so far away, and didn’t she do field work or something like that?
No. But you and I are the only two people I know of who have considered how that would work and come to that answer.