Topic

multigenerational households

2 pieces, newest first.

Aug 30Accounts

What a Free Grandparent Actually Costs

Grandparent childcare saves American households billions of dollars a year and it is the least examined transaction in the household economy. We followed four families who rely on it, and asked what is being paid, and by whom.

Rosa Delgado4 min

Aug 21Relations

The Guest Room Problem: When a Parent Moves In

It starts as a stay. Nobody names an end date, the guest room stops being a guest room, and eighteen months later a household is running an arrangement it never agreed to. Six families on what they wish they had settled in the first fortnight.

Rosa Delgado4 min