In this chapter we have seen that social networks, communities, and community institutions like churches can be powerful resources for child development and social mobility. But we have also seen that in today’s America these resources have become less public and collective, forcing all parents to rely more heavily on private provision.48 Affluent parents have an abundance of financial and social capital, so they have adapted more easily to the privatization of support for children. Caring for kids was once a more widely shared, collective responsibility, but that ethic has faded in recent decades. That narrowing of the effective scope of “our kids” has had dramatically different effects on privileged and impoverished children. Which leads to the questions we will ask in the next chapter: “So what?” and “What is to be done?”