In skip-generation households, grandparents are quietly stepping up to parent all over again

22 May 2025 | 11:00

Wendy Nocar was 51 the day she got a surprise call from her son: she had a granddaughter, and the baby had been born addicted to heroin. “I’m going to try to get her,” Nocar recalled telling her son. “Why wouldn’t I?” She visited her granddaughter every day for the month the baby was in the NICU, then...