I was going for 'keep together in the same family or neighborhood or preferably both,' but not necessarily requiring one household to adopt, like, 10+ kids at once. And definitely not separating them permanently!
While I'm familiar with the concept of 'raised by the clan,' as a thing that happens, I had a mostly-standard American nuclear family upbringing with a parental divorce and no siblings. (All my cousins are a different age group, and live far away.)
The closest match in my family history that did something similar /did/ have age-cohorts of cousins...but those get-togethers stopped about forty years before I was born.
Basically, I'm guessing they'll be closer than myself and my cousins, or myself and my schoolmates, and while I don't think going home to different houses on the same street would be terrible, I really don't have the emotional knowledge of that sort of a sibling/peer/playmate relationship.
(I do expect they likely will be clingy once they start missing their parents, or get weirded out by being in Italy-not-Texas...)
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Re: Yes ...
Date: 2020-12-10 06:28 am (UTC)While I'm familiar with the concept of 'raised by the clan,' as a thing that happens, I had a mostly-standard American nuclear family upbringing with a parental divorce and no siblings. (All my cousins are a different age group, and live far away.)
The closest match in my family history that did something similar /did/ have age-cohorts of cousins...but those get-togethers stopped about forty years before I was born.
Basically, I'm guessing they'll be closer than myself and my cousins, or myself and my schoolmates, and while I don't think going home to different houses on the same street would be terrible, I really don't have the emotional knowledge of that sort of a sibling/peer/playmate relationship.
(I do expect they likely will be clingy once they start missing their parents, or get weirded out by being in Italy-not-Texas...)