THERE'S NO SOCIAL PATHOLOGY A RECESSION WON'T CURE:

For love or money, more families living together: Study finds rise in extended kin in same home (Hope Yen, 3/19/10, Associated Press)

Driven partly by job losses, more multigenerational families are choosing to live together as “boomerang kids’’ flock home and people help care for grandchildren or aging parents.

About 6.6 million US households in 2009 had at least three generations, an increase of 30 percent since 2000, according to census figures. When “multigenerational’’ is more broadly defined to include at least two adult generations, a record 49 million, or one in six people, live in such households, according to a study the Pew Research Center released yesterday.