[Book cover]
Book 3 ยท The Grand Matriarchy Series
The Grand Matriarchy Village
A Guide for Grandfamilies, Single Parents, and Chosen Kin
Martin Vendemia
You got the call. You said yes. Now you need the village that makes the yes sustainable. Every chapter ends with one action — not a summary, one thing to do before you read the next chapter.
ISBN 978-1-63623-063-4 (Print) · 978-1-63623-062-7 (eBook)
More Than 2.5 Million People Are Doing What You’re Doing. Most Feel Completely Alone.
The opioid epidemic sent the call to hundreds of thousands of grandparents. The incarceration rate sent it to thousands more. Military deployment, illness, mental health crises, poverty — each one generated the same call: Can you take the children?
Most of the people who said yes said yes before they had time to think. They didn’t need another government program. They needed people. Not a 1-800 number. A neighbor who can pick the kids up on Tuesday. A village.
The village is buildable. This book shows you how.
“You do not need another government program. You need what every grandmother in every era of human history had available to her by default — and what the modern world has mostly taken away.”
You’re a Grandparent Raising Grandchildren
Whether you have legal custody or not. Whether the parents are present or absent. You are the center. This book names what that means — and shows you how to stop being the only one holding it.
You’re a Single Parent Who Never Had the Village
You’ve built support networks from scratch — and you know any of them is one job offer away from leaving. This book gives you the framework for building something more durable.
You Said Yes Because There Was No One Else
An aunt, an uncle, a family friend who became something the family needed. You didn’t have a plan. You had a child in front of you and an available yes. This book is for people who carry things they didn’t sign up for.
Every Chapter Ends With One Action.
Not a summary. Not a list of things to consider. One thing to do before you read the next chapter. The village is not built by accumulating information. It is built by making calls, showing up, recruiting, and repeating.
If you just got the call — start at Chapter One. If you’re already in it — start at Chapter Four. If you’re ready to build — start at Chapter Nine.
For every grandparent, aunt, uncle, and chosen kin who got the call and said yes.
You deserve the tools and the community to carry this well.