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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is the best possible scenario living in a multigenerational household where the grandparents take care of the children while the parents work and then the children and grandchildren take care of the grandparents when they age?[/quote] As another PP mentioned, parents have kids too late in life for this to be practical for more than a few years. Grandparents get too old to be actively involved. So then Mom ends up in a sandwich generation hell taking care of little kids and old parents. Also the nuclear-family-centric attitudes toward this arrangement would be prohibitive, at least for typical DC white people. Everyone I know in that category is annoyed or stressed out by their parents after a couple days of visiting. I grew up in a close-knit family and would like to think I'm not part of that, but my mom lived with me temporarily to help with my baby while DH was working overseas and I felt like snapping at her often.[/quote]
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