Sandwich-Generation

As a Sandwich Generation one hand, the generation of today 40 - to 60 -year-olds referred to that is " pinched " like a sandwich between the obligations for itself, the retired generation (via pension contributions or nursing services ) and the costs of their own children until well into college age.

In deviating closely aggregated using the term refers to the group derjeniger people who carry the concern and care for own elderly relatives, mostly for their own parents, and who are responsible both for the care and upbringing of their children.

The term plays as a political slogan in a number of socio-political issues involved:

Simultaneity of care and parenting

In particular, women carry a double burden partly by the simultaneity of care of parents and parenting.

Empirically, however, this case is rare and occurs even more rarely in combination with its own work on. Furthermore, this Sandwich constellations have no systematic negative effect on life satisfaction.

Intergenerational equity

The sandwich metaphor is used to describe the generation justice ( missing ). Due to the extension of the training period, extending the life and demographics, the middle generation to pay the costs of an aging society through higher pensions and nursing posts, but must at the same time privately save up for their own pensions, as the Statutory pension insurance can not expect an appropriate pension.

Financial commitment for children and parents

The German social security law provides, under certain conditions before a maintenance obligation for adult children and their own parents. This also makes the middle generation comes in the " sandwich constellation."

The legislation or case law to the terms of the maintenance obligation is therefore often annotated with the term Sandwich Generation. Examples are

• The decision of the Supreme Court to keep parents
• The discussion for a maintenance obligation for parents of young unemployed under the unemployment benefit II

In general, the readiness is high to provide voluntary benefits to parents and children. In the private sector does the " small -generational contract ". In the described conflict is recourse claims of social services to the ' sandwich generation '.

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