The answer depends on the specific cultural context in which the question is asked. Let’s take a look at a few representative efforts here and there. One remedy, bristling with cultural dimensions, is “kangaroo housing” where children add on an extra room to the house to serve as a pouch in which the older parents can ride. It is cultural in terms of its degree of acceptance by both children and parents. Both the youth and older people of some cultures seem attracted to this closeness, some others favor it less highly or hold it in negative regard. In the south ofeurope older people tend to live with their children more than do seniors in the North. In other countries a dozen people or more may sleep in one room, and then the entire conception of privacy is nonexistent and there is no need even for a separate pouch for parents.