DCFusor
Yellow Jacket
The extended family thing almost never left, here in Floyd VA. It's all over, but welfare etc are slowing it down/reducing it.
Used to be if you were a bit retarded (yes we have a few) you'd sign on as a farmhand somewhere and join that extended family by choice, rather than blood.
Everybody won. Now that guy gets disability, and usually dies young due to neglect and lack of help making wise choices, not to mention lack of healthy exercise and food.
Nevertheless, examples abound of extended families living on the same land, often with more than one home on it - people shift according to needs. The old guys don't need the home that best serves a young couple with babies, for example. It works itself out, usually. Our biggest problem is the young leaving for the "Big city" and the "excitement" they think they are missing here. It's mostly their loss.
Used to be if you were a bit retarded (yes we have a few) you'd sign on as a farmhand somewhere and join that extended family by choice, rather than blood.
Everybody won. Now that guy gets disability, and usually dies young due to neglect and lack of help making wise choices, not to mention lack of healthy exercise and food.
Nevertheless, examples abound of extended families living on the same land, often with more than one home on it - people shift according to needs. The old guys don't need the home that best serves a young couple with babies, for example. It works itself out, usually. Our biggest problem is the young leaving for the "Big city" and the "excitement" they think they are missing here. It's mostly their loss.