The loving grandparents who'd raised him had both had extensive experience of the outside world, yet neither had hesitated to turn to root-cunning and prayer to set things right.
He lives with his eccentric but loving grandparents, who own a boarding house called Sunset Arms; several storylines involve Arnold's interactions with the house's tenants.
And three-year-old Alex has his loving grandparents, Andrew and Monica, to help guide him out of the darkness towards normality.
We do know that virtually every study of child development shows that youngsters lucky enough to have loving grandparents are destined to be winners.
Cherished and loving grandparents of Hannah and Benjamin Klein.
"Of course, I remember them more as loving grandparents than as artists," he said.
She later became a drug addict and eventually died of HIV, leaving young David in the care of his loving grandparents.
They remain friends as well as loving parents to Marcus and loving grandparents to their granddaughter Rosie.
Mom, dad, Sarah, Daniel and Zachary and your loving grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins.
"It's a little late for them to play the role of loving grandparents."