Since the Second World War, American families have kept splitting and isolating. To offset this, a programmatic goal emerged from the Older Americans Act of 1973 to facilitate inter-generational interaction.

It didn’t have a lot of success over the past 40 years. Then along came the tsunami of economic forces, and inter-generational households are back with a vengeance.

http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1528/multi-generational-family-household

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