Nuclear family or Extended which one would you really prefer??

officerripley said:
I think that's correct too. People keep having fewer and fewer kids, so a lot of the time there just aren't enough family members to go around who can/are willing to take care of elderly relatives. And another thing that can make it difficult: hardly anybody seems anymore to have just one old mother and one old father who are still married to each other to take care of; lots of times, the parents are divorced, so now you're going to need two extra bedrooms if they move in with you. And if they've remarried? And their spouses' families can't/won't help? (I know firsthand about this some; over a ten year period, I was mostly the only person stepping up to help 2 biological parents and 2 step-parents. Not fun.)
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Slow down a bit please. We had everything organized from dentist to hip replacement to Medicare and a bathroom remodel as quick fix until we found big enough house for Mumsy who required a full apartment including garage. She changed her mind at 21:00 the night before movers showed up to get her stuff. A day later she changed her mind, changed her mind, changed her mind.
 
yea lots of families can be difficult to each other and that doesn't help - I guess I look back with rose colored glasses on an EF that seemed to function well - all had their own abodes but just around the corners from each other - so I grew up playing with half a dozen cousins - as a 9 year old I could and did walk anywhere I wanted in the big city of Liverpool - never any fear or 'gang warfares' talkin about kids ;

homosexuality must have clamped down on that [men on kids I meant] I had a few pennies in my pocket - jumped on trams and rode into the countryside where John Lennon would have lived [no never met him] he may have told me to pee off?? safest city of all it was and then rock and roll came along!!
 
rock and roll split families and changed the dynamics for ever and not necessarily for the good - and I take a share of the blame joining in with it all!!
 
officerripley said:
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I think that's correct too. People keep having fewer and fewer kids, so a lot of the time there just aren't enough family members to go around who can/are willing to take care of elderly relatives. And another thing that can make it difficult: hardly anybody seems anymore to have just one old mother and one old father who are still married to each other to take care of; lots of times, the parents are divorced, so now you're going to need two extra bedrooms if they move in with you. And if they've remarried? And their spouses' families can't/won't help? (I know firsthand about this some; over a ten year period, I was mostly the only person stepping up to help 2 biological parents and 2 step-parents. Not fun.)
 
Twostep said:
I think that's correct too. People keep having fewer and fewer kids, so a lot of the time there just aren't enough family members to go around who can/are willing to take care of elderly relatives. And another thing that can make it difficult: hardly anybody seems anymore to have just one old mother and one old father who are still married to each other to take care of; lots of times, the parents are divorced, so now you're going to need two extra bedrooms if they move in with you. And if they've remarried? And their spouses' families can't/won't help? (I know firsthand about this some; over a ten year period, I was mostly the only person stepping up to help 2 biological parents and 2 step-parents. Not fun.)
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I give you credit for doing it .
 
MACKTEXAS said:
For many of us, such as myself, there is no longer a nuclear family, only extended, so I make the most of what is.
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This is so true. I’ve only got a brother left in my nuclear family. Both my parents died last year. I love my brother though . My extended family is very extended.. l love my extended family also. My sister in law and father in law are coming to visit us this summer and I’m really looking forward to it. We might visit the Cabot trail together.
 
PeppermintPatty said:
This is so true. I’ve only got a brother left in my nuclear family. Both my parents died last year. I love my brother though . My extended family is very extended.. l love my extended family also. My sister in law and father in law are coming to visit us this summer and I’m really looking forward to it. We might visit the Cabot trail together.
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great stuff - a new model of the extended family re-opening heh?
 
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