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The responsibilities of caring for young and old can be detrimental to family life too, the survey suggests, with two-thirds of sandwich carers reporting damage to their marriages or personal relationships.
BBC: Carers of young and old 'are struggling to cope'
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"I've seen others who took responsibility for caring for old parents alone and they collapsed from the strain of that and doing their regular work, " he says.
CNN: Alone in the Big City
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In San Diego, former airline-shuttle operator Conan Cott, the husband of U.S. Navy computer-systems and organization specialist Michele Cott, has been caring for the couple's 4-year-old twins since they were born.
WSJ: When the Wife Is the Breadwinner