The Intergenerational Family-Past, Present, & Future
Episode 26 of the Mommying While Muslim podcast, hosted by Zaiba Hasan & Uzma Jafri, titled "The Intergenerational Family-Past, Present, & Future" was published on August 20, 2020 and runs 65 minutes.
August 20, 2020 ·65m · Mommying While Muslim
Summary
The vertically multigenerational family is not new to America, or to the world. We discuss the pros and cons of vertical and horizontal generations in a household, talking about the trauma we’ve witnessed and how we take the good parts of our histories to build future families. Alternatives to intergenerational families are explained, as well as the costs. The economic realities that are forcing families into multigenerational households is going to be faced head-on in this episode. This open...
Episode Description
The vertically multigenerational family is not new to America, or to the world. We discuss the pros and cons of vertical and horizontal generations in a household, talking about the trauma we’ve witnessed and how we take the good parts of our histories to build future families.
Alternatives to intergenerational families are explained, as well as the costs. The economic realities that are forcing families into multigenerational households is going to be faced head-on in this episode. This opens a can of worms on HOW to run a multigenerational family within American culture with Islamic values? It comes down to how we culturally define “family” and what that looks like and works like for us.
Links:
- NYT on Emotional Labor of Moms: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/15/parenting/working-moms-coronavirus.html?searchResultPosition=1
- The Multigenerational Household: https://www.gu.org/explore-our-topics/multigenerational-households/
- The Legacy Project: https://www.legacyproject.org/guides/intergenbenefits.html
- The Graying of America: https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2018/03/graying-america.html
- Statistics on Multigenerational Households https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/04/05/a-record-64-million-americans-live-in-multigenerational-households/
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