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The article mainly introduces the sandwich generation- people who struggle to care for both their children and their elders while holding a job as well. By giving the example of Anne, a 42-year-old social services, who has a 84-year-old mother and three children to care. the autor gets his own ideas: the sandwich generation bear a huge amount of stress. First, today’s families have profoundly changed from previous.Today’s seniors had fewer children than their predecessors, there are fewer family members to share the burden. The family members should work very hard to support their family. According a survey, in order to stay the same living standard as the past. people in modern society should work twice as hard. Second, they should take care of their young children and their parents.If they try their best to take care of their parents, they have to shorten their worksand have little time to take care of their kids, whch will make the kids unhappy. However, if they leave their parents alone, they will feel guity. Morever, even if they don’t live with their parents, there is the stress of juggling obligations at home, to their extended families and to their emplyers. According to a survey, thoses works who should care for the parents and children, have more stress, less job satisfaction and more absence than these workers who need not care for parents and kids.Many canadian families who bear a wide range of new responsibilities, elder care can take a physical, and emotional, sacrifice. government should take responsibily to relif the load for this generations, so that the sandwich generation will have little stress.
