Obesity among children and adolescents in New York has tripled over the last 30 years, according to the New York State Department of Health. Apparently, a quarter of New York City schoolchildren between kindergarten and fifth grade are overweight, as are an even greater proportion of the City’s high-schoolers.
A columnist writing in The New York [...]

They’re calling it the sandwich generation, since the protagonists of the drama, usually middle-aged or getting close to it, are “sandwiched” between aging parents and growing children. Others like to refer to the phenomenon as the Cluttered Nest Syndrome.
Whatever the terminology, it’s a situation increasingly common in a society where, on the one hand, couples [...]