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Parenting
fromBusiness Insider
3 days ago

America's grandparents are raising their grandkids and delaying retirement. Some expect to work until they die.

Grandparents increasingly serve as primary caregivers for grandchildren due to parental inability, forcing them to work longer and delay retirement while managing significant financial and caregiving burdens.
fromFilmmaker Magazine
5 months ago

"Shooting on Film Felt Fight-Joy's an Analog Lady": Nathan Silver on His NYFF Documentary Short, "Carol and Joy"

Nathan Silver's short documentary Carol and Joy radiantly builds upon this lineage, extending his recent first-time work with Carol Kane on Between the Temples -whose warmth and wit anchor the film-into the realm of nonfiction, while reuniting with regular collaborator Sean Price Williams, whose kinetic camerawork mirrors its unruly vitality. Filmed over two afternoons in the New York apartment that Kane shares with her 98-year-old mother, Joy, the film captures a cascade of memory, music and confession.
Film
Books
fromPortland Monthly
5 months ago

A Novel of an Anarchist Nursing Home Run by 1970s Punks

A tenderly depicted autistic boy finds refuge within an intergenerational, mutually supportive assisted-living household organized around radical hospitality and care.
Miscellaneous
fromwww.theguardian.com
6 months ago

It's the great grandparent revolt and it shows we parents aren't the only ones burnt out by family life | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

A significant proportion of older adults, especially in Spain and southern Europe, provide unpaid, frequent childcare, causing exhaustion and conflict over expected grandparental duties.
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