As someone who lives in eastern Europe, where "multigenerational living" is the norm, what the hell is this author talking about?
His issues with his mother are not a generalised problem with multigenerational living, nor the majority of people living in these arrangements experience it.
The aggregated knowledge of all the members of a household is invaluable, and much of this article reads like "I am not used to having family around me, so I will write about how terrible and anguishing this makes me feel."
We even have a saying in our country, which goes along the lines "It takes an entire village to raise a child", and it holds.
His issues with his mother are not a generalised problem with multigenerational living, nor the majority of people living in these arrangements experience it.
The aggregated knowledge of all the members of a household is invaluable, and much of this article reads like "I am not used to having family around me, so I will write about how terrible and anguishing this makes me feel."
We even have a saying in our country, which goes along the lines "It takes an entire village to raise a child", and it holds.