Which of the following clients of a nurse practitioner is demonstrative of a growing trend in the role of grandparents in contemporary American society?
A) A 70-year-old grandmother is raising her two grandchildren because their mother is in prison.
B) An 80-year-old client of the nurse is going through a divorce with her husband of several decades.
C) A 79-year-old man laments the fact that he is estranged from his son's children.
D) A married couple in their seventies who refuse to provide free child care for their grandchildren on a daily basis.
A
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A growing number of grandparents have primary responsibility for the care of their grandchildren, a fact that can often be attributed to teen pregnancy, incarceration, or substance abuse. Divorce late in life, estrangement from grandchildren, and refusal to provide care are not noted to be phenomena.
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