Care Collective: "In African American communities, where racism has made resources scarce and life more precarious, black women have long reimagined what mothering might look like, dividing childcare between 'blood mothers" and 'other-mothers.' A blood mother is a child's biologicla mother, whereas other-mothers are the network of women a biological mother can rely on when she is not available to care for her child. [...] This expanded notion of kinship eased the burden of care for an already overburdened social group and spread the joys as well as the challenges of caring to other women in the community."