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Book Three · The Grand Matriarchy series

The Grand Matriarchy Village

A Guide for Grandfamilies, Single Parents, and Chosen Kin

Loretta got the call at 11:47 on a Thursday night.

Her daughter was very sick. The grandchildren needed someone now. She was sixty-one. She was in her car within four minutes.

The idea

For the people raising children they didn't expect to raise

2.7 million grandparents in the United States are raising grandchildren as primary caregivers. Millions more do the work without the title — the aunt who took the kids, the neighbor who became a parent. If you got that call, you already know.

You are doing the hardest work there is — without a framework, a network, or a single person who understands what your Tuesday looks like.

This book is for you: a working blueprint for building the village, so you are not doing this alone.

“Someone finally described what I have been doing my whole adult life — and called it important.”
— a seventy-three-year-old reader
A grandparent reading with two small children at home
The books are for the people at the table — read, shared, and passed along.

Every chapter ends with one action. You are not alone in this. This book is proof.

Build the village — read The Village on Amazon.

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