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[quote=Anonymous]After reading all the pages, my suggestion is the Common Sense approach.

If a family can afford to pay for its own travel, without it really hurting the family budget, then go for it.  Otherwise, those with the deeper pockets can help out with part or all of the cost if they want the family to come visit.

Growing up one grandparent was very affluent and another was not.  One grandparent paid for all airline trips for my family to fly to the hometown to see her and she paid for all of her own airline trips to come see us.  This grandmother paid even though my parents were also very affluent.  For this grandma it was part of what she viewed as her hostess responsibility if she invited us to visit.  That's fine because that was her choice.  But the other grandparent was receiving $ each month from my parents to help her make ends meet.  It would not make sense for her to pay for flights.  So my parents paid for her airline ticket to come see us two or three times a year and then my parents paid for our travel when we would go to see her.

We are not in a similar situation with our children's grandparents since they all live nearby.  But we have paid for the airfare for other relatives like great aunts and uncles or other extended family to come visit us.  Again, it is our choice.  Sometimes we just can't get everywhere to see them all with our other commitments but we want to see them.  So we will call and invite them to a trip out to see us.  We've never had anyone turn us down and to my knowledge no one has ever felt bad or embarrassed about accepting.[/quote]

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