Three Generation Households

[kandrathe]

However, even under the circumstance of ''kid fails to make it in the world and moves back in with mom and dad, bringing his/her offspring along', it seems to me more likely that the 'offspring brought along' may well be better off than they would be otherwise.

My older sister went through this phase and is still in some ways doing this with my mom. She married a guy after she finished being an MP in the Air Force, he didn't want children and she was told by the doctor she was unable to have them. Well, surprise after tens years together. Nature figured out how to make her parts work. Husband freaked out and a divorce ensued. They sold the house and business they jointly owned, then he took the money and lost it at a casino. Exit deadbeat loser. My family doesn't really believe in welfare so she ended up moving in with my mom, then for the next ten years pretty much relied on mom for stability. During that time she went back to the university and obtained her masters degree in chemisty, and now has a good job. But, she has no interest in men. She is kind of the archetype for Man-Hating-Bitch, and with her military background she routinely stomps the heinous jerks she attracts or she drives away the nice ones since she can't respect them. I think of her as a really mean Grace Jones. Anyway, her daughter is 180 degrees opposite and is the 100 percent definition of feminine and docile. Even though the daughter is now in her late teens, they jointly (my mom and my sister) decided that living with grandma was better than the daughter being lonely and unsupervised with mom and mom focused on her career.

So that is just one case that I know alot about. It's no Brady Bunch, but it's also not a multi-generational welfare drug abuse thing either.