In Georgia, for example, the census reported that 170,454 grandchildren live with their grandparents. The House Study Committee on Grandparents Raising Grandchildren and Relative Care was created by House Resolution 474 during the 2015 Georgia General Assembly. This resolution “recognizes that there are issues facing grandparents and other family members as primary caregivers and guardians, including accessing services, financial support, and making medical and academic decisions for children in their care. The committee was charged with studying these issues, as well as the administration and effectiveness of state-funded programs designed to assist those providing gender-sensitive care, and make recommendations to further improve the services provided and ensure that the problems they face grandparents and other family members are taken into consideration. and addressed (House of Representatives Study Committee on Grandparents, Raising Grandchildren, and the Care of Grandchildren, 2015, Introduction). The Georgia House of Representatives conducted a survey on the issue in 2015. The study found that 5.5 to 6.5 percent of children under the age of 18 lived in the care of their grandparents in Chatham County. It also concluded that the poverty rate for families in kinship care was 25 percent higher than the overall U.S. poverty rate; concluding that these children grew up with their grandparents