“Grandparents taking care of grandchildren is part of American heritage.”
In TN it’s not warm and fuzzy in that way. My friend was a social worker for the state and way more than half of these instances is because the parents are major drug abusers. Very often the have no involvement in their own kids’lives.
“My friend was a social worker for the state”
Was this one of the social workers contributing to the human trafficking industry? Many social workers and “child protection” entities simply feed the children to this industry.
Many of them don’t realize what they’re doing. Their problem is they’ve believed the lie that the state can take care of kids better than parents.
And I should add, many social workers are highly incompetent, largely because of the ideology in our education system.
And by the way, the answer to the problem of widespread drug use in our culture is not to just give up like cowards and allow the state to become the parent.
The answer is to audit the CIA and other agencies. These agencies are the drug kingpins.
I didn’t mean to imply anything other than that a grandfather is way out of practice taking care of an infant. If they’re alone with them it’s too much in most cases. They forget how dependent the infant is. That’s all. Again. My FIL was the best. He let the kids take risks out on the farm, climbing, riding around back of the truck taught them how to play Texas Hold-em
But infants need their mothers. Or a current expert. There are no grandfathers working in day cares. They’re just not suited for it.
Whereas they’re vital for when the kids get older and need to learn to manage risk taking, jumping, playing, running climbing things mom finds hard to watch