At the forefront of the coronavirus epidemic, the family has gone from “safe haven” to just plain refuge. “As soon as the confinement was announced, we decided to take my old mother home. Her carers could not have come to visit her and we could not imagine leaving her alone at home for a fortnight, with no one to shop for her, no company… ” says Dominique, a doctor and mother who lives in the Yvelines, in the countryside. An unfolded sofa to welcome the grandmother, a home to hunt loneliness… Many brothers and sisters, parents, children, old aunts or distant cousins joined together during this health crisis.
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Marie, a Parisian executive, found herself alone with her two young children when her husband, who had Covid-19, was hospitalized. Weakened herself, she was immediately offered help by her brother, yet monopolized by her own tribe of five children. "He had me
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