Stefan Sharkansky blinks twice at a Seattle Post-Intelligence story about the problem of children being raised by relatives other than their parents. In a journalistic game of the old Sesame Street chestnut “One of These Things Is Not Like the Others,” look at what the reporter describes as a social problem:
This so-called “kinship care” is the largely unseen fallout from a confluence of social problems — parental drug addiction, incarceration, mental illness and, more recently, military service — that have left about 2.3 million children in the United States raised by their relatives, mainly grandparents.