Grandparents can be a lifeline for kids caught in upheaval - Wire - Lifestyle - bellinghamherald.com:
"My mother married my father, a violent and abusive man, when she was 17 - a week after she graduated from high school. We fled from him when I was 5, showing up at my grandparents' house during a thunderstorm."
The memory of that night comes to me in flashes. I remember feeling scared and confused. We stood in their living room right by the front door, and I didn't realize that I was trembling until my grandmother wrapped her steady arms around me.
In the months that followed, while my mother went to vocational school to learn a trade to support us, my grandparents stepped up to the plate. They provided me with safe shelter, emotional healing and a sense of who I was and where I came from.
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