Is it ordinary in your country third and fourth-aged people to support young family members?

[pousinha]

In Latin America, it's ordinary grandparents financially supporting young family members (a lot of times, financially supporting simply means offering a roof on their heads, as the just married couples can't afford a house of their own). Unemployed children who get married and have their own children while they still aren't established. Even when they have a job, the salaries are often small, not enough to pay private schools (to avoid the overpopulated and very noisy public schools, where learning becomes very difficult). So those grandparents pay for fees, tuition, books and other school stuff for their grandchildren.

 

[magnus2022]

Well, it is nearly impossible in my country. It is the children that take of theircaged parents and still take care of their children. Though, in every society, thete must be exceptions! Such kind of of thing can never be acceptable in my immediate community.

 

[eLdavis]

Over here the younger ones often takes care of the older family members, though there are several cases were they might have to rely on the elderly ones.

 

[pousinha]

Well, it is nearly impossible in my country. It is the children that take of theircaged parents and still take care of their children.

Over here the younger ones often takes care of the older family members, though there are several cases were they might have to rely on the elderly ones.

It was used to happen during my great-grandparent's times, as Social Securities were inexistent. Unfortunately, the consequence for families under the middle-class weren't a big deal, as the grandchildren's needs were neglected (obviously, I don't blame the third and fourth-aged, but the society favouring only the richest and wealthiest inhabitants of the country and the fascist laws inviting men to marry to avoid the singleness tax, neglecting the fact a lot of men were lacking minimum conditions to start a family, at the point few years old children were forced to work instead of going to school).