Full House
More households are home to multiple generations.
More households are home to multiple generations, according to the Pew Research Center.
“In 2008, an estimated 49 million Americans, or 16% of the total U.S. population, lived in a family household that contained at least two adult generations or a grandparent and at least one other generation,” a recent report stated. “In 1980, this figure was just 28 million, or 12% of the population. … Our report finds that from 2007 to 2008, the number of Americans living in a multigenerational family household grew by 2.6 million.”
These family communities can illustrate No. 2204 of the Catechism: “‘The Christian family constitutes a specific revelation and realization of ecclesial communion, and for this reason it can and should be called a domestic church.’ It is a community of faith, hope and charity.”
