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Grandparent help would have been far more common in the past due to shared living arrangements. Makes you think it might be harder today when coupled with both
by arbol 5y ago
Grandparent help would have been far more common in the past due to shared living arrangements. Makes you think it might be harder today when coupled with both parents working.
- progre 5y agoI agree, but this also in opposition to the prevailing (maybe cultural) drive for everyone to live their own life. Most people I know wouldn't want to live with their parents or their inlaws. Most parents don't want their grown up kids around. So we build kindergardens and other social services to help with that. And underfunded schools somehow gets stuck with actually making functioning adults out of kids. In Sweden, where I live, stay-at-home parents don't get a full share of the pension funds so the system discurages staying at home with kids. So much for the vote-yourself-rich democrazy. It's a mess. It should be noted though: The small family unit came first, with industrialization. The social network is there to support the industry, not the family.