Gerard Wallace’s lifetime and work on kinship care
Автор: The Altamont Enterprise & Albany County Post
Загружено: 2026-02-06
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Gerard Wallace, who grew up in Brooklyn, suffered as a child and so devoted his career to ending childhood suffering.
Retired now, he lives in the rural Helderbergs and believes some of the worst suffering happens in rural areas.
Wallace, a lawyer who advocated for kinship family rights, had a hand in creating a dozen laws in New York state that gives grandmothers and other kin rights in caring for children whose parents are unfit.
The many awards he’s won are displayed in his Rensselaerville home along with pictures of grandmothers he has helped across the years and around the country.
“Why I got into kinship care and meeting grandparents raising kids is that my home was really a broken home,” Wallace says in this week’s Enterprise podcast. “My father was an alcoholic, worked on the waterfront. He was a good person but, when he drank, it was a nightmare …. We grew up in a state of toxic stress.”
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