This. There are many children being brought up in single parent or grandparent headed households across Ohio due to the opioid epidemic. See https://www.nytime

This. There are many children being brought up in single parent or grandparent headed households across Ohio due to the opioid epidemic. See https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/26/us/opioids-kinship-ohio.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/26/us/opioids-kinship-ohio.h... and https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/02/us/opioid-crisis-high-school-teenagers.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/02/us/opioid-cri... The kids who were raised under the shadow of the opioid epidemic are now reaching their child-bearing years. Hopefully the cycle of drug dependance can be broken once firmer opioid prescribing regulations take effect. EDIT: Not trying to generalize your situation but to illuminate the problematic environments some children are born into.