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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Question: why is it called the sandwich "generation"? Doesn't every generation have to deal with both kids and aging parents at some point?[/quote] People are waiting longer to have kids and elderly folk are living longer. Thus a woman in her 50's (like me) has an 11 year old and an 87 year old mother. [b] Not the usual case 20 years ago.[/b] It happened sometimes, but there was not an entire generation with both little ones and very aged incapacitated parents to deal with at the same time.[/quote] Not quite. Today's 80 was yesterday's 65, so plenty of folks had to deal with children at home plus incapacitated parents. Previous generations accepted this as a given, while modern Western cultures tend to discard the elderly, because they see no value in previous generations. Only burden.[/quote]
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