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How childcare responsibilities get unevenly distributed in communities

I love the idea of our multigenerational cohousing but the reality is that I end up babysitting everyone's kids for free while they attend meetings I can't go to because I'm watching their children.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Informal care arrangements in communities often fall disproportionately on certain members without acknowledgment.

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