As a kid, Marian McQuade liked hanging out with her grandma on her farm in West Virginia.
“I remember she worked all day doing the things all of them had to do—milk cows, feed the chickens, fix breakfast, do the washing.”
“Then she’d put on a clean apron, or turn her apron around, and we’d take a glass of jelly and see somebody a couple miles down the road that was sick.”
Many immigrant parents seek to bring their own parents here to help care for their kids while they work long shifts in grueling jobs, two sociologists recently wrote in The New York Times. President Trump wants to stop them.
Earlier this year, I published a long story about a grandmother in Houston, Stephanie Johnson, who had lost access to her grandson after her daughter was murdered and who was fighting in court to be reunited with him. Here’s an update on Stephanie’s plight.
Grandparents from all over the country are road-tripping to a Texas border city this weekend to protest the Trump administration’s treatment of migrant children and their families.
A zoologist who just identified a new species of frog has named it after his three-year-old granddaughter, Sylvia.
“Buddy, don’t forget,” Laura Mellencamp told her grandson daily. “You’re the handsomest, luckiest, most talented boy in the world.”
Clara Spera recently graduated from law school. Her inspiration was her grandmother, Ruth Bader Ginsburg.