---
title: "Grandparents and Child Care"
description: "This posting links to a September 2013 Pew Research Center report on children living with, and being cared for, by their grandparents. "
date: "2013-09-04"
authors:
  - name: "D’Vera Cohn"
    job_title: "Former Senior Writer/Editor"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/dvera-cohn/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2013/09/04/grandparents-and-child-care/"
categories:
  - "Household Structure & Family Roles"
  - "Older Adults & Aging"
  - "Teens & Youth"
---

# Grandparents and Child Care

In 2011, 7.7 million children in the U.S.--one-in-ten--were living with a grandparent, and about 3 million of those children were being cared for primarily by that grandparent. Both of these numbers rose rapidly after the onset of the recession in 2007 and have stabilized since 2009, when the recession officially ended, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data. [Read more.](https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2013/09/04/at-grandmothers-house-we-stay/)