Multi Gen One Home Living

Number of Americans who live in multigenerational family households is about four times larger than it was in the 1970's. while the number in other types of homes grew by far less. 

The share of the U.S. population living in multigenerational homes more than doubled over the past five decades.

Forty Years Living Together

Four decades creating a single family home for three generations 

Mom’s generation worked until they died and sometimes it happened in the field, the garden, the kitchen or the bedroom. 

Girls were trained to nurture and adapted to being trained to manufacture carburetors and even bombs.

Baby Boomers debuted into a Brave New World where women would eventually be treated almost equally and for some years have rights denied their Mothers.

Too chaotic for you and yours? Melding, merging, three generations. Who’s the “parent” and how does Grandma or Gramps “step back” or do they “step forward” and become the “enforcer”?

How many of you recall the saying of a few decades ago “It takes a village”?  In our community, we were the only ‘multi gen” family for a couple of decades.

 We’ve been in our current home, after moving around the country, since 1978 – over forty years. 

Just as we are redefining who each of us is or wants to be, we have the ability to choose how and with whom we want to live. MultiGen Living is a choice not many make.

Ever watch an orchestra being led by a conductor? Different instruments. 

Individuals with specific skill sets used in unique ways.

Instruments that could stand alone.

Together the range and scope of the music is wider, more complex and more interesting.

To us, it was natural. Mom was a beautician, she fell and broke her wrist, Dad was out of the picture years ago finally passed when I was going into my second semester at college from the alcoholic life he lived. 

It’s not for everyone just as some choose not to have children, some couples lead totally separate lives except they do it under one roof. 

Sources:  Retirement Living Sourcebook  

                Pew Research