Grandparents head 62% of multi-generational households which are are growing faster than any other type.
Now 4% of all types, multi-generational households grew by 38% from 1990 to 2000.
Families Add 3rd Generation to Households
A variety of cultural factors also draw and keep relatives together. Multigenerational living, especially those in which grandparents care for their grandchildren, have long been common in Asian and Hispanic countries, and the arrangement is popular among immigrants from those nations. Also driving the trend are — who else? — active baby boomers who want to be involved in the lives of their offspring and who see little appeal in flying off to a Sun Belt retirement in isolation.
Are these helicopter parents just slightly older?
Posted by Jill Fallon at May 25, 2006 11:28 AM | Permalink