Yes, and even if the grandparents or extended family live elsewhere but nearby, there can be a sharing of the workload: not just meals and childcare, but also a

Yes, and even if the grandparents or extended family live elsewhere but nearby, there can be a sharing of the workload: not just meals and childcare, but also a family member who works on everyone's cars, one who does a lot of the yard work, one who does house repairs, etc. Multi-generational and extended family houses work for some folks, but more broadly we have the problem that adult children move away from their families and start a new family somewhere else, without a replacement for that support structure.