The silver-haired safety net

摘要

Barack obama was raised by his grandparents for part of his childhood. He remembers his grandmother as being "tough as nails". Clarence Thomas, a Supreme Court judge, was raised by his grandparents because his mother could not make ends meet. He called his grandfather "the greatest man I have ever known". Grandparents have always reared children when need arose. Most have done it well. A few have done it badly-the late comedian Richard Pryor, who was raised by his grandmother in a brothel she owned, was constantly beaten.