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No. That's a cultural thing.
You would be surprised that a record 57 million Americans, or 18.1% of the population of the United States, lived in multi-generational family households in 2012, double the number who lived in such households in 1980.
About 4.2 million of the 113.6 million U.S. Households consist of three or more generations.
Asian cultures (Korea, Thai, China, Japan), some Europeans live with their parents, or aging parents move in with their children, Arabic cultures, some south Americans and South Africans.
In many cultures the care of older parents is the children’s responsibility, and negligence toward one's parents is a source of great public shame, especially in Japan. Filial piety is considered a key virtue in Chinese and Indian culture.
My neighbor, he is white, his wife is Filipino, they have a 6 year old, her mom moved in with them about a year ago, and about 2 months ago, her brother, wife and their kid. He left a couple weeks ago, said he could not deal with all of them in his house. He's gone for good. He apparently had no say-so in the decision.
My neighbor, he is white, his wife is Filipino, they have a 6 year old, her mom moved in with them about a year ago, and about 2 months ago, her brother, wife and their kid. He left a couple weeks ago, said he could not deal with all of them in his house. He's gone for good. He apparently had no say-so in the decision.
I would not do it
I've seen that happen more than once with Filipino spouses.
The most severe case was a man I worked with who had married a Filipina in Okinawa. Her father had taken her and her mother to Okinawa when she was a small child, then abandoned them there. She had grown up on Okinawa where she met and married my friend--never having seen or heard from her father since she was a small child.
Some years later, my friend was stationed in the Philippines where, lo and behold, his wife's father--who had abandoned her and her mother in a foreign country, who she hadn't heard a whit from in twenty years--suddenly showed up at their door.
Yet, that cultural issue of family and care for parents was so strong, she insisted that he be allowed to live with them.
No. That's a cultural thing.
You would be surprised that a record 57 million Americans, or 18.1% of the population of the United States, lived in multi-generational family households in 2012, double the number who lived in such households in 1980.
About 4.2 million of the 113.6 million U.S. Households consist of three or more generations.
Pretty common in Hawaii.
Actually, it makes a great deal of economic sense.
In cultures where this is the norm, it's usually the husband's family, right?
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