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[9 Mar 2006 | No Comment | 396 views]

I’ve been traveling again – and talking to more women about what’s on our minds. The theme that has emerged recently is “The Sandwich Generation” stresses. It is a condition of our parents living longer that makes it likely that we will have, according to some estimates, as many years of parent care ahead of us as we have had of childcare behind us. Not that caring for our children is behind us. The other half of the sandwich is the trend toward grown children moving back home or simply …