About The Fallout
Part roadmap, part manifesto—The Fallout is the book grandfamilies needed and the system never gave them.
When the opioid and fentanyl crisis shatters a home, it is the grandparents who are left to pick up the pieces. Across America, millions of grandparents and kinship caregivers have become the unacknowledged infantry on the front lines of a national epidemic—draining their retirement accounts, navigating complex legal systems, and stepping up to raise their grandchildren when no one else will.
Written by a grandparent who spent nearly two years in the trenches of the kinship care system, The Fallout is a comprehensive guide to surviving and thriving in the aftermath of parental addiction. It covers everything caregivers need to know: the brutal realities of the fentanyl crisis, the intricacies of legal guardianship and the child welfare system, the financial and healthcare resources available, and a full state-by-state directory of support services.
You are not alone in this fight. The Fallout provides the answers, the validation, and the roadmap that every grandfamily needs to ensure the next generation doesn’t just survive—they heal.
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Author Bio:
J.D. Kincaid is a researcher, advocate, and co-guardian who spent nearly two years navigating the legal, financial, and emotional complexities of raising his grandson after his daughter's descent into fentanyl and methamphetamine addiction. What began as a personal crisis became a two-year mission to understand a system that millions of American grandparents and kinship caregivers face with little guidance and fewer resources.
Drawing on lived experience, extensive research, and interviews with families across the country, Kincaid wrote The Fallout: Lessons Learned from the $2.7 Trillion Crisis and the Grandfamilies Revolution — a comprehensive roadmap for grandparents and kinship caregivers navigating guardianship, child welfare, financial assistance, and healthcare access. The book includes a full state-by-state resource directory and a frank examination of the policy failures that created the grandfamilies crisis.
Kincaid writes from the front lines — not as a distant observer, but as a grandfather who lived it.