Mixing elderly with children as solution to demographic ageing skew

Ageing and thus wonky demographics, with few children to support many elders, arises in part because of an insufficiently shared burden of municipal childrearing. Ending the ghetto of retirement communities by incorporating them more into childrearing is both healthy & practical.

One recently leaned towards segregating the youth in 'youth demographic zones' which have artificially imposed, healthily smooth demographic bell curves. But greater blending of the elderly with the children would probably be more effective and practical across society as opposed to a more limited yet more complicated special demographic zone.

Plainly, in many places of the world now there are too few children; and these are expected to care for far too many elders. This is not healthy, and it is a challenge to which we must necessarily find sane, healthy and practical solutions.

Traditional family values involving specifically a nuclear family of a man with a woman and their children are good; but in light of the municipal childcare burden and consequent demographic wonkiness these must integrate with a new way of mixing the elderly with the children; and similar measures which significantly soften the harsh edges of unhealthy demographics. 

This line of thought and course of action proceeds from a dialogue between the challenges we face in this chapter of the world and the commandments of Christ the God Man.

So often, the 'solutions' which the world around us offers to significant challenges involve some sort of sin. A quintessential example of this kind of exigency is the king who divorces his wife in order to secure an heir by a presumed fertile replacement. 

Another example is the commission of infanticide and the like at times of societal disaster. There is quite a range of such exigencies which just happen to conflict with the commandments of God. This is a great battlefield and wonderful arena in our species' history.

Tremendous pressures do arise in society, and sometimes it is well nigh impossible to come up with any solutions which are gentle on the people who experience them. We cannot do the impossible. But we can deliberately incorporate the commandments of God into our thinking about the most difficult and paroxysmal of the challenges now facing us. 

We cannot harvest the fruit of solving global challenges with supple adherence to the commandments of God without setting the incorporation of His epic law into our every thought and consequent solution individually and as societies. 

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