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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Moving parents into a house with your kids is a disaster. It’s exhausting and steals so much time from your spouse and children.

They should move to continuous care facilities where they can live independently and have their own identity and friends.

Reclaim your life and enable your dad to have one of his own,[/quote]

“Steals so much time.”

Wow. That’s really dehumanizing.  An aging person’s needs reduced to “theft.”

“They should move.”

No they shouldn’t. They should have the money to stay home with full time live in care and attention. But almost nobody can afford that. Just like the vast majority of older people can’t afford to just move to a “continuous care facility.”

There’s no one size fits all solution to these situations, least of all a glib dismissal of the elderly as not even worthy of human dignity.

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+1 Is it okay to say that having kids steals so much time from your spouse, so you should put your kids in boarding school and reclaim your life?

Some do feel this way, but I wonder why they have kids in the first place.

Your parents spent an enormous amount of time and money raising you. I don’t understand the selfishness of the adult children who won’t reciprocate. [/quote]

Actually, many parents don’t put a lot of time and money into raising their kids. Mine sure didn’t, and I’m mindful of this when creating boundaries during their elder care. [/quote]

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