Trend found in today’s young couples are avoiding living near
the house of their parent-in-law. The reason is that the couple
could be more independent, or they could also avoid the nagging
mother-in-law. However, parent-in-laws living near them actually
offers many advantages, in addition to be more efficient, it can
also increase fertility. Dr Virpi Lummaa from the Sheffield
University analyzed the records of 300 years churches with the
last data recorded in 2000. These records contain data of birth,
marriages and deaths of farmers in Finland. The study, presented
at the 2012 Euroscience conference in Dublin found that married
couples who live close to their parent-in-laws have more
children. In addition, the distance between the child’s birth
time is also shorter. Couples also tend to marry at a young age
when their mother are still alive. Not only that, previous
research has found that children born from couples who living
near their grandmother’s home are less likely to die in infancy.
It seems that the