I wasn’t surprised when May told me that she’d thought about getting together a group of seven other moms in which one would make dinner for everyone else one night a week. “I think a support system has got to be, like, the number one way to help with our time management,” she said, citing informal networks of in-laws and friends. Taking this further, we might imagine, as Angela Y. Davis did in 1981, that “child care should be socialized, meal preparation should be socialized, housework should be industrialized—and all these services should be readily accessible to working-class people.” If
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