How do children feel about being raised by their grandparents?

Question

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Answer 1

My mother died when I was very young, and my father was not interested in us, so we were raised by our maternal grandparents.
I am eternally grateful to them for giving up their retirement to raise us when a perfectly capable young man (ie my father) was not prepared to do so and preferred to go out and feed his addiction.

This was late 70s/early 80s; Grandparents were Irish; UK; we were 3 kids, one boy, 2 girls.

Naturally, we have some resentment and anger towards our father who continues to be lazy to this very day, blaming others for his state.

Answer 2

Well I was never raised by my grandparents, but my nephews
were since they were younger youngest was from 2 &3 & 4. Until
the age of 13&14&15 . And the were very happy there with my parents. They were comfortable, my dad was their only father
figure around. They did everything together. My mother did
everything for these boys. My mother and father only had us girls
and my neiphews were like the sons they never had. We are
mexican/Americans born in Santa Monica,Fresno CA.. But
as my parents got older and my father was dieing and my
mom has alzhimers desease then they were force to move.
I am now raising one of the boys, which he'll be 18 in Dec.06.
My father passed in March 06, And the boys were devestated.
As we all were. My mother is still with us, God Bless her Soul.
We go to L.A. To visit my fathers grave site every month. So
We will be all in content.

Answer 3

I was raised by my grandparents until I was 4. I love my grandmother like my mother. She was and always will be "Mommy" in my heart. When my parents took custody back, it was very traumatic for me. It was like being taken away from my parents. It didn't help that my father was an alcholic and abusive. It took years and lots of therapy to get past this and I still have huge abandonment issues. I think it would have been much better if they had left me with my grandparents, at least until I was old enough to understand. I'm still very close to my grandmother, call her frequently, and send her mother's day cards. I'm not as close to my mother, she and I still argue alot, but mostly because she is fundamentalist christian and rams it down my throat every chance she gets.

I'm now 43, white, female. I lived in IN at the time.

Answer 4

well i m 28, male but almost till i was 17 i was raised my grandparents...my parents used to travel alot for work...i hardly felt uncomfortable, but there is onething i can surely tell you is...grandparents, because of their grand age have seen alot and have lots of wisdom...i heard a lot of stories from my grandma about her childhood and alot of stories from my grandpa about his whole life (my grandpa was about 80 when i was 16)...and there is one thing for sure that i have learned aloootttt from them specially grandpa that helps me alot in my life both professional and personal right now...growing up with grandparents can be a difficult at times cause yes they do get grumpy but trust me you learn the best lessons of life which you can not lean from elsewhere.

Answer 5

I am an asian, my children spent a lot of their time with their grandparents, and they were the happiest, since they got all
the attention they needed which as a working parents we could
not afford to give.

Answer 6

i felt fine