Comments on: Counting the Cost http://robert.williamsonline.us/2004/09/counting-the-cost/ I am crucified with Christ, and yet I live Sun, 17 Jan 2010 13:28:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Rong http://robert.williamsonline.us/2004/09/counting-the-cost/#comment-810 Rong Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://robert.williamsonline.us/?p=733#comment-810 Staying with your car perspective, my Dad has always blamed the car for the break up of the extended family in America. His perspective is from that of the post WWII explosion of the automobile to the average consumer. It allowed familys to move further apart because of the sense that you could hop in the car and go visit. But that's not the same as my being able to walk up the street to Moms to help her out for 5 minutes. On a side note I look at many immigrant families and see the way that they have 2-3 generations in the same home and think to myself that they've got the right idea. Grandma gets to help Mom out with the kids. The husbands brother helps bring in the extra income needed to afford the nicer house so the wife(s) don't have to work. Everyone pitches in to watch Grandpa so no one person is burdended with hospice care, etc. etc. Maybe the real problem is not with our technology but in the way that we allow it to change our lives. Staying with your car perspective, my Dad has always blamed the car for the break up of the extended family in America. His perspective is from that of the post WWII explosion of the automobile to the average consumer. It allowed familys to move further apart because of the sense that you could hop in the car and go visit. But that’s not the same as my being able to walk up the street to Moms to help her out for 5 minutes.
On a side note I look at many immigrant families and see the way that they have 2-3 generations in the same home and think to myself that they’ve got the right idea. Grandma gets to help Mom out with the kids. The husbands brother helps bring in the extra income needed to afford the nicer house so the wife(s) don’t have to work. Everyone pitches in to watch Grandpa so no one person is burdended with hospice care, etc. etc.
Maybe the real problem is not with our technology but in the way that we allow it to change our lives.

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