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[quote=Anonymous]This is a side effect of a couple shifts in society: 1) people have kids much older so that by the time their kids have kids they are too old to help and 2) families being spread to the wind geographically so little family support lives close enough to help. It’s tough to not have family support, not even just for the big trips like OP talks about, but just for little things, like if a kid is sick and can’t go to school, you can call up a grandparent to help, etc. I’m fortunate enough to have one set of grandparents and aunts living in our area who love doing sleepovers with our girls so we occasionally get to do weekend getaways alone and lots of date nights with free babysitting. This was a choice we made however to move back home specifically to be near family for this support. We also had kids ‘young’ (relative to dcum) at 29 so when our kids have kids we won’t be too old to provide the same support to our kids and grandkids.[/quote]
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