The next time you’re at the airport or checking into a hotel, you might notice a traveling group that looks, at least at first glance, a little unwieldy: young kids, their parents, and their grandparents, all vacationing together regardless of age or mobility limits.
A scene like this would have been rare a few decades ago, according to Susan Rugh, a history professor at Brigham Young University who wrote about the history of family travel in her book Are We There Yet?: The Golden Age of American Family Vacations.
The classic 20th-century family vacation was typically a nuclear one, comprising a mom, a dad, and their young kids. Grandparents and other relatives seldom came along. But more and more, research shows, families tend to bring multiple generations with them.
This, in turn, has changed people’s preferred travel destinations, and even the very purpose of travel: Multigenerational groups are much more likely to take simple, relaxed beach vacations than to embark on logistics-heavy city visits or road trips.
Is this a white people thing? It’s a white people thing isn’t it. Pretty sure everyone else has been kicking it with their grandparents since forever.
I think it’s just getting too expensive to put Grandma and Grandpa in a home
Similarly, getting kicked out at 18 always seemed crazy to me
A lot of these polls are white people things.
You can tell when you visit a listing of “best vacation spots” and the darkest people in the vacation photos are the staff.
“We can finally afford to go to Disney World, and just in time before Grandma and Grandpa kick the bucket”
I’m not seeing the problem here. We went to the Bahamas with my mother a few years ago and she was happy to watch my daughter while my wife and I did other things. It worked out really well.
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Typically thanks to the help from our much wealthier boomer class.
