Cohousing-L Mailing List: re: Kids and work

[Joe Nolan (jnolan]

Albert wrote:
>Do many cohousing communities have extended families in them? This
>seems like such a natural, seeing as how the ideal of cohousing is
>very similar to the idea of a large family.
>

In our group there is a family with 4 generations represented (occupying 4
units). Although this is really cool, I think it's probably quite unusual.
I agree that the lack of functional extended families in mainstream
American culture is one driving force of coho here.

-joe


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joe nolan
EcoVillage Cohousing Cooperative
Ithaca, NY
http://www.cfe.cornell.edu/ecovillage/