Aging

Farmers are aging. Their kids don’t want to be in the family business

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MARSHALL, Ill.—Don Guinnip is running out of time. The fifth-generation farmer still wakes early each morning to tend to roughly 1,000 acres of corn and soybeans and 40 cattle The fifth-generation farmer still wakes early each morning to tend to roughly 1,000 acres of corn and soybeans and 40 cattle. But four decades of grueling … Read more

Should your aging parent still live alone?

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This is an edition of the WSJ Weekend Reads newsletter, a weekly look at our most colorful, thought-provoking and original feature stories on the business of life. Savannah Guthrie and her mother, Nancy Guthrie. The kidnapping of 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie has many families rethinking their own situation. The tension between adult children and their aging … Read more