communal care
Group-based mutual support
Communal care is the shared responsibility for raising children, supporting the elderly, or tending to community members' needs—distributed across a group rather than falling solely on individual families.
The concept appears in discussions of parenting, eldercare, and social organization: It takes a village is the communal care philosophy.
The term often carries political connotations, contrasting collective approaches with nuclear-family or market-based models.
- sharedHeld in common
- collectiveJointly organized group
- villageSmall rural community
- tribeSocial group sharing ancestry
- childcareSupervision of young ones
elders · passing down · neighbors · looking out for · open door policy · kinship · cooperation · lending a hand · pitching in · nurturing · support · extended family · child rearing · babysitting · meals · potluck · barn raising · mutual aid
communal careinstitutional care
Professional supervision in facilities
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