Saved by Keely Adler
Building a culture of care in America
Most essentially, it’s about treating child and elder care as infrastructure: absolutely essential to the health of society, and deserving of holistic reforms that treat it as such.
Anne Helen Petersen • Forced to Care
If I had not broken the law and aborted that life nobody wanted, they would have been aborted by a cruel, bigoted, and senseless law. They would never have been born. This thought I cannot bear. I beg you to see what it is that we must save, and not to let the bigots and misogynists take it away from us again.
Ursula K. Le Guin • Words Are My Matter: Writings on Life and Books
I want to drill down on one aspect of the intro, too, because I think it’s essential: how has care “curdled,” for lack of a better word, in our minds? And what have been the implications of that degradation?
Definitely curdled. When I say the word “care” I think it often brings to mind the smell of diapers or that unpleasant combo of urine and disi... See more
Definitely curdled. When I say the word “care” I think it often brings to mind the smell of diapers or that unpleasant combo of urine and disi... See more
Anne Helen Petersen • "I Went Into Motherhood Determined Not to Lose Myself in It."
the United States is in the midst of a crisis rooted not just in rising costs but in the very meaning and ethics of care.