It’s Permanent Custody Day.

Gaining Permanent Custody of our grandchildren. Grandparents raising Grandchildren. Grandparents raising their Grandchildren is not so uncommon these days for several reasons. Families headed by a grandparent often are called “grandfamilies,” and they are common among families in which a relative has taken over primary responsibility for raising a child from parents (known as “kinship care”). he challenges of grandparents raising grandchildren As grandparents, we usually have the benefit of interacting with our grandkids on a level that is once removed from the day-to-day responsibilities of parents. For many of us, grandparenting means a weekend together every now and then, an afternoon play date, an evening babysitting, a summer vacation, or chats on the phone and email exchanges here and there. But when life circumstances change—through divorce, the death of parents, or changes to a parent's work or school-related responsibilities, for example—it often falls to grandparents to assume full- or part-time responsibility for their grandchildren.