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Grandparents,would you bring your infant grandchildren home to raise if you were in your fifties?

  • Posted on January 2, 2010 at 4:04 pm

Due to my daughter’s drug addiction to crack cocaine, I was already raising 3 of her children, one barely a year old, when she had a set of twins. The state became involved due to the babies being born positive to drugs. After seeing the sweet tiny little beings in their incumbator, so tiny barely alive and helpless abandonded by their mother my heart almost broke and I had to bring them home when they gained weight and was well enough to leave the hospital. This year i will be 62, and the children are thriving,happy and have caught up and even surpassed their peers in regular kindergarten. I was really afraid I was too old to adopt and raise my babies, but I am glad I did now. My family thought I was nuts, but I have discovered there are lots of grandparents and even great grandparents raising small children now, but my question is in
case anyone is thinking about this, would you do it?
My babies had many obstacles to over come, even operations,but I worked as a pediatric nurse for over 9 years and knew what type of therapy they required,
but sometimes I wonder what I would have done if I did not have this type of background, and what a grandparent without it would do, besides that I have a great faith in God, or we would not have come so far.
Thank everyone for their kind answers,and I still worry that although my daughter will reach 43 this year, she is still able to become pregnant and still doing drugs. She is now also mentally impaired,perhaps has been for some time. so now I have a new question what can be done about that?

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