Leaning on friends to raise kids doesn’t really work. They’ll help out in an emergency, but they won’t babysit two days a week for free. The real work is done

Leaning on friends to raise kids doesn’t really work. They’ll help out in an emergency, but they won’t babysit two days a week for free. The real work is done by blood relatives, aunts, uncles and grandparents or paid help. Mutual babysitting clubs are a form of paid help. I babysit for you and you babysit for me