Can I venture to ask, if people don't feel they have a village, do they have support from other avenues such as childcare etc? I tend to think formal, paid childcare is a result of a lack of village. So these parents aren't necessarily doing it on their own? Sorry if that offends, just a thought I had. In fact, even govt family payments etc have probably become a necessity because we all feel we need to stand on our own and not live as a village. Actually, I don't know why we can feel entitled to receive help from the govt with each extra child, and yet not be allowed to expect anything from a village. And I'm not talking about take take take from a village, it goes both ways, we need to participate, but I don't see anything wrong with wondering if the support would be there if I had more children.
Hey, unless you live in the outback everyone can make their own village!
That's true Lulu, altho not sure how that would make someone like Bath feel, who is trying to expand her village but feeling it's a bit tough. But yeah, it does depend upon us to get out there and get a village if we don't have a lot of family around, even then family doesn't always help anyway!