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Let's do it the other way. I'll name only one where living with your parents is considered not kosher - the USA. In practically every traditional society, living in the family home is just fine, especially for those members of the family that don't have their own homes.

In fact if the family home is sizable, raising your own family inside the family home is OK too. I've seen it everywhere I've traveled - much of Africa and South America.

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>raising your own family inside the family home is OK too

Sure, is OK, but is not ideal, and is done mostly by necessity, for economic reasons.

There can be big benefits to being near your family, including health and mental health benefits, besides the economic benefits. Recent parents being able to lean on the grandparents, rather than sending kids to expensive daycares that frankly don't really care about the child as much as a grandparent will, for example.

I would tend to disagree with this. Grandparent may value your child more than worker in daycare, but socialization of your child will suffer a lot, so will its development, child need to be with peers and not home with 2 old people. Same goes for playing and learning, there justisn't enough stimulation at home compared to daycare.

Who says children need constant stimulation? They've historically had no trouble filling the gaps with their imagination. If anything, I think that attention span has suffered greatly because children are never allowed to be bored anymore.

It's actually very ideal. The support system is far superior to what you'll find at a day care or elderly care facility.

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