Image via WikipediaBy: GEMA MARIA DUARTEMore than 2.4 million people in the U.S. are raising their grandchildren, often with limited means.
The Christmas tree was bare. No gifts were under it. So she vowed she would never have another Christmas like that one in 1990.
Dolores Chapman was raising seven grandchildren and none of them had a gift to open. That Christmas the kids weren't allowed to go out and play with their Bristol Township neighbors.
"I felt bad," she said.
The next day, with $200, Chapman purchased gifts for her grandchildren on sale.
This Christmas, the 63-year-old grandmother is caring for three other grandchildren - a 5-year-old girl, an 8-year-old boy and an 11-year-old girl.
It's tough being a grandparent and raising grandchildren on a fixed income, she said. Of her 18 grandchildren, she's raised 10 of them.
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