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Also gives Grandma or Grandpa something to do. Keeps multi-generational families together. Seems economically inefficient though that’s not really the goal.
by mathattack 3y ago
Also gives Grandma or Grandpa something to do. Keeps multi-generational families together.
Seems economically inefficient though that’s not really the goal.
- bobthepanda 3y agoJapanese families are largely not multigenerational in the same house. Coresidence of parents and children have fallen in half over two decades from 50% to 24%: https://academic.oup.com/psychsocgerontology/article/62/5/S330/570920 https://academic.oup.com/psychsocgerontology/article/62/5/S3... Here's the wikipedia article about elderly dying in Japan and being undiscovered due to being lonely and forgotten: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodokushi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodokushi
- mathattack 3y agoThanks for sharing! My experience is dated, and (like everywhere) Japan evolves.
- bobthepanda 3y agoJapan is changing very rapidly due to its demographic transition. It is close to 50 years after the fall of fertility rate below replacement in Japan; so soon there will be increasing numbers of elders that not only do not have grandchildren, but don't have children either.