Question

Please write down a comment, what piques your curiosity in what you read below? (150-250 Words)

I have heard of the AARP before but I had not really done much research on it. The AARP stands for: American Association of Retired Persons and was founded in 1958 by Dr. Ethel Percy Andrus, which that is the first thing I did not know. I had never looked at this website before and did not know there was so much information on it. I did not know there were so many links and articles you could look at. When I clicked on Family and Friends, the first thing I saw was bold letters saying "New help for Grandparents raising Grandchildren" and I think something like this would be very helpful because I think today so many grandparents are raising their grandchildren. I also did not know this website has technology information. I also clicked on a tab that said 8 rules for new caregivers. 1 Start with candid conversation 2. Set your priorities 3. Build a support network and many more. When I clicked the tab "Health" there were many different links about care giving. I read that cancer comes with a 69 percent five-year survival rate, which increased from 49 percent in 1975. I also learned that AARP Foundation Experience Corps change lives of over 31,000 children by helping them become better readers.

Answer 1

The society is constantly changing and people and relationships change with these changes. 20^th century has brought lots of challenges to family and relationship with the increased amount of individual rights, technological impacts, long hours of work, stress etc. All these have caused people get disintegrated from their familial responsibilities thus forcing the grandparents who were supposed to live with them and play with the grandchildren to bring them up all alone thus forcing them to carry the burden and stress of parents again.

There is an increasing amount of grandparents who on their own take care of their grandchildren for various reasons such as death of the parents, parents not living together, single working parent etc. So, it becomes very important that the society makes enough assistance available for the grandparents who bring up their grandchildren on their own. There should enough community supported programmes for the children who are brought up by the grandchildren thus giving some breathing time for the elderly. It would be also appropriate for the communities to set up enough counseling and guidance centers that would help the children who grow with the elderly to revamp themselves thus reducing the burden of the grandchildren.