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Originally Posted by momo3bur  It doesn't really apply to adults who have their own lives, own marriages, jobs, etc., yet tote their parents along in order to care for them. There is absolutely nothing adolescent about that whatsoever.
I don't think having your parents live with you constantly
happens a whole lot in North America, but something that is very common is for an adult to move away, start their own life and family, and then move their parents back in with them when the parents are older and need assistance. That scenario is actually very common, at least around the area I live. Many houses around here, including mine, are built with an onsite or connected "mother-in-law" suite that will having living quarters, kitchen, bath, bedroom(s) so that the parent(s) can live with the adult child but still care for themselves as much as they can so THEY (the parents) don't lose their sense of independence. |
I haven't participated here in a while, but this particular issue just galls
me:
When I was a child, the 'adult's thinking was: Cant wait 'til she can take care of herself. - Then at age 13 I was sent to the USA, where at only age 15 I was forced by mom to work FULL-time, while just starting hi-school (& for the only time in school, I started failing because I was comatose during school hours, because of working daily from 1500-2340. <- That is child-abuse on so many levels.
Then,
the very daughter, who I protected (from being by the AMA aborted), and who I lovingly nurtured & raised, & homeschooled on sheer FUN, so she could graduate from college with honors while only 17, - when she got married, she said to me: "Mom should anything ever happen to you, you can't come here to recover. Sorry."
So, because of medical malpractice I have needed a place where in fact I can recover. I can't even begin to describe, what it feels like to be
abandoned, no less by the very people who you gave your life for, to protect.
Well, this is just another post to explain why I don't much come here anymore, aside the fact that most people don't bother responding, at the same time that I have positively encouraged so many here.
Oh well, carry on!