Unless I am mis-understanding this article, I have to agree, it is preferable to have multi-generations near each other, even if you don’t all live under the same roof, it is nice if you are all within a reasonable driving distance of each other
Yes that is the point. 🙂 Drama abounds in extended families — but even the conflict-resolution building and socialization from that can be healthy. There’s just something to be said for the social ills we’re experiencing and fragmentation that prompted them.
I grew up with multi-generations within a short distance from us. My parents and my maternal grandparents came from large families, and most of descendants were less than 30 minutes from my great-grandparents’ home in Western Pennsylvania. There were large get-togethers with extended families on a regular basis.
Then the collapse of the steel industry and other plant closures forced my generation and younger to look for opportunities elsewhere.
“it is preferable to have multi-generations near each other, even if you don’t all live under the same roof,”
Well stated. A close drive away is also very very good. Those Sunday dinners and get togethers. Close by during need, happiness or tragic times.