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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have thought that we need little commune type communities.  Small community with houses and condos or dorms.  A community center with a cafeteria.  Meal plans available, like on a college campus.  A drop in daycare, where parents/seniors could volunteer to babysit.  Volunteers could check in on the elderly.  If you volunteer in some regard, you get a discount on rent or food or something.  The 'village' that we always hear that is needed to raise kids.

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Plenty of us had parents/grandparents who were immigrants and established this sort of thing and it rarely works the way you dream. Heck when I had my first child our neighbors thought they would establish this. Elderly mom was moving in with them and they kept trying to push her on me to babysit my newborn while I was there and when I needed to run errands in exchange for companionship and occasionally taking her on excursions. The woman was feeble and uninterested in babies and I was too exhausted to provide free babysitting for an elderly person. Then they tried to set me up checking on her for free and being her emergency contact while they were at work. I let them know there are services that do this. I had a newborn with medical needs and was barely sleeping. I was too wiped out.

The village works when you have a bunch givers, but sadly it often attracts takers and users. Just form your own village. I have done that. We truly help eachother and it isn't some government setup.[/quote]

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