> The proposals about multi-generation living are worth considering, but they can't be used as an excuse to bone the younger generation and call it "the norm".

> The proposals about multi-generation living are worth considering, but they can't be used as an excuse to bone the younger generation and call it "the norm". And that's what I observe happening. What does bone the younger generation even mean and how does that manifest? See my comments elsewhere in this thread. I have one and soon two older children living with us and the circumstances are in that comment. There are no excuses used in my house. I don't see society saying kids need to live with their parents or saying they don't. I see individual families with circumstances that make the multi-generational living arrangements advantageous or even necessary. However it is not all positive. There are pluses and minuses.