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When grandparents face financial strain raising grandchildren

I am on a fixed income and my grandson needs new school clothes and I cannot afford them and I am too proud to ask the church for help again.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Pride and poverty create a painful collision when grandparents must choose between dignity and grandchildren's needs.

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