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[novapsyche]

Toward a New New Deal -- a compendium of articles

Vermont inmates call food foul, sue over it: Nutraloaf is punishment, not a meal, says suit before state Supreme Court

This doesn't sound legal: 'Error' led to former SLA member's early release -- "Just days after her release on parole, a former 1970s radical was headed back to prison Saturday to serve at least one more year after corrections officials said a miscalculation resulted in her early release."

Sobriety in a Pill?: A look at the growing trend of treating addiction with medication

Midlife crisis: Moving back in with parents: Slumping economy, credit crunch forcing some to seek shelter back home

Comments

[laureth.livejournal.com]

Back in the day, extended families with generations living together was the norm. Then, "prosperity" made things like suburbs, nuclear families, and the like. The article makes it sound like generations living together is a temporary thing until get "get back on our feet," so to speak, but I wonder if this arrangement will become more common and more permanent as the "prosperity" of the last 60 years fades back to the way we'd lived for time immemorial before that. As things crash around us, it seems inevitable that we'll backtrack, picking up the ways we used to live in the past, and adapt to them again.

[jdoggiedogg.livejournal.com]

Is it prosperity or the industrial revolution? Now that society is no longer self-sustaining agrarian, the extended family model might not be as functional since it doesn't lend itself to mobility. Not that the current situation is functional, but it's what we've got.