Would you raise your grandchild, why or why not?

Yes, because we are family and we take care of each other. My blood runs in the veins of my grandchild.

Well, I don't have any children, much less grandchildren, but assuming I was physically and financially capable, it is something I would do. I just wouldn't trust anyone else.

I most certainly would. They have a mother who is a drug addict and is high all day and all night and they live in a filthy stinking roach infested house with all different kinds of men coming over there and she prostitutes and smokes and gets drunk on top of all of this. There has already been one molestation from one of the men that she let come in her house leaving her kids unattended!! If I could get custody of them I sure would without even thinking about it. I had gotten a house big enough for us but the office said their mother could not move in because of her credit history and me and the kids could have moved in but they did not want to live there if their mother isn't living their too. It was a mistake for them to choose her over being in a clean, safe environment. They all suffer from separation anxiety because just a few months before they had been homeless and were put in abusive homes of relatives. I told my daughter that they could ALL stay with me but she said I keep the kids while she stayed in another city in effect dumping the kids off on me so that she could get high freely. I wanted her in my house because she wouldn't DARE do that around me. I have a terminal illness and didn't want to have the kids there without her. THEN!! Her decision ruined her children. She had a nice BIG house where the rent was paid and all she had to do was pay the electric and water. I gave her everything that she needed and we helped her to clean the place up. She refused to work but instead had different men coming over there and she was getting high and messing up and eventually she lost that house because the electric had gotten cut off. I paid her bill for her and she turned right back around the next month and didn't pay again which means that I wasted my money. I am on a limited income and couldnt' keep paying her bill for her. If she'd come live with me when I asked her to none of the bad things that happened since then would have happened. Right now the oldest kids say that they want to live with me. This is kinda long sorry.

I was raised mostly by my grand-parents. It saved me from orphenage. But it didn't give me parents. So, you see, nothing is black or white. Take what we're given is good already. . When we're given something.

I'm not old enough to raise grandchildren yet.
still raising the little one right now.

at 56, I believe I am getting too old!

If the child would not benefit being with the parents or if they were unavailable I absolutely would expect the grandparent to step in...as long as they were capable of it.

Absolutely. I only have the one so far- and if for example, both of his parents were deployed I'd consider their trusting me with him to be a huge HONOR!

No. Kids are rotten nowadays and have no morals. I don't want to put up with a 13 or 14 yo thinking they have the right to have sex in their bedroom in my home. Then, the drugs - no, not for me.