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When Your Partner Wants to Bring Aging Parents Into Your Home

My husband wants to move his mother into our home as her health declines but I feel like I'm already stretched too thin with work and our own kids.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Intergenerational care expectations reveal gendered assumptions about emotional labor and household management.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Care ethics — justice from relationship?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.