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What it really means to care for both aging parents and kids

The Sandwich Generation What it really means to care for both aging parents and kids Deb Liu Jul 13, 2023 56 14 3 Share My parents struggled with infertility for many, many years. They got married in their late 20s and then spent the next seven years trying to have children. After two miscarriages and many disappointments, they finally had my sister, and a little over a year later, they had me. At this point, my mother was in her late 30s, and my father was 40. My in-laws, meanwhile, met and married in their mid-thirties and had my husband within a year. He was born quite prematurely, and they

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