No Shoulder to Lean On: Parentless Parenting Presents Challenges
“The ‘sandwich generation’ members — a resilient group — experience double the stress as they tend to the needs of aging parents while raising children.
However, midlife parents who have lost their parents face a unique and often lonelier journey. They navigate childrearing, holidays, milestones and life trials without the wisdom and presence of an older generation to lean on. Both challenges are fraught with uncertainties, but given the option, which would you choose: . . .”