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With today's busy lifestyles, it's not always the parents that are taking care of kids. Sometimes it's the grand parents or other relatives.  It's called kinship care.

Lynn Granger, the Executive Director of Vermont Kin as Parents, or VKA, spoke with Mike McCune.

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