The U.S. Relies on Family Caregivers. Millions of Them Are Kids.

The modern health care system requires the work of caregiving to fall to whoever else lives in a household — even if they’re kids.SuSann Forman-Ferreira, 74, and her eighth-grade grandson and caregiver, Zion Zebedee Hedgepeth, at their home in Boca Raton, Fla., in June.