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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a society, we need to rethink our family units of the future.  It makes no sense to have the elderly in retirement centers and the kds in daycare. We need multi-generational households again, that all live together and yet are independent.

We cannot have our young people wiped out by student loans and debts. Pay has to be equal for both men and women and paid maternity and paternity leave should be the norm. Flexible work schedules and remote work needs to be the norm.

This country is too backwards in all of these things.   [/quote]

You’re missing the point of the op. These type of multigenerational and symbiotic  units were more feasible when the average gap between generations was ~25 years. With more and more people having children at 35-40 or up  it’s far less likely that your average 75-85 year old grandparent is going to be able to live in your home and actually help in providing child care for your own kids. More likely that they will begin to need their own caregiver, hence the growing challenge for those in the middle.[/quote]

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