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[quote=Anonymous]What I'm reading is that a village can mean a lot of things to a lot of different people.  A lot of it seems to be centered around the ability to provide care or oversight for each other's children.  To me, it's a bit more than that as it also encompasses that idea of a community that's there for each other.  Sometimes DCUM depresses me since it feels like there's many places where the fabric of community or a sense of being interconnected isn't there, but other times I like reading people's posts in this thread about that commitment to each other.

Example, a few years ago my husband unexpectedly had a medical emergency.  Without being asked friends showed up with meals, arranged carpools so that my kids didn't have to miss extracurriculars, and a neighborhood dad came over and mowed our lawn.  Are these things I could have figured out on my own - of course.  Did it make life easier to have some of the practicalities taken care of by others so I could focus on caring for DH?  Yes.  People cared and people stepped in.  Would that have happened if we weren't invested in building relationships with others?  Probably not.

Your village are those people you can call on when needed, who are there for you in good times and bad.  Who step in for the little stuff and the big stuff.  YMMV.[/quote]

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