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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I suspect the ones clamoring for grandchildren are also the least likely to help out with babysitting or to visit. They just want the status symbol of telling their friends how many grandkids they have and don't want to help out current parents in a world that has made it much harder to raise children than they experienced.[/quote]

Why should we help out? Our parents did not help us neither did any previous generation parents since dawn of time.

My grandparents had 8 kids and we lived 3,000 miles away yet somehow my mom had four kids and me three kids. Today the precious snowflakes wit two kids except both grandparents helping, daycare, babysitters, after school programs, summer camps. Raise your own damn kids.

All I ask, marry well, have 2-3 kids, buy a house and have me over thanksgiving, Xmas, kids birthday parties. I am not your servant. I raises my kids.

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Up until around the 1950s it was very commonplace for families to be multi-generational with kids, parents, siblings, grandparents and even great-grandparents living in the same home or maybe a little family compound or at least within just a mile or two of one another.

You see many economists and sociologists now scorning when the idea of the "nuclear" family took off such that it was two parents and 2-3 kids living independently, with no family close by.  Covid has decimated the childcare business so it restricts parents joining the workforce.  They are now proposing that people should reconsider the multi-generational living arrangement because you have many different adults to help one another, babysit kids, help with aging parents, etc.[/quote]

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