grandparents, aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters, neighbors, friends. Those not raised in communities of caring—perhaps neglected in impersonal institutions, caught up in dysfunctional families or dangerous neighborhoods—typically suffer psychological and spiritual damage, which sometimes also manifests itself in a physical failure to thrive. Even as we each increase degrees of self-sufficiency moving into adulthood, we remain more dependent than not upon the choices and labors of others. None of us