Raising Children After Losing Both Your Parents: Parenting With No One Behind You

Raising children without your parents means doing the whole job with no one behind you: no backup on sick days, no one to ask what you were like as a baby, no obvious answer to who would take the kids. It's lonelier than most people see. You can't replace your parents, but you can build a bench of support, make a real emergency plan, and give your kids their grandparents through stories.