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Your response successfully connects the dots between early care programs and the broader
systemic issues of racism, sexism, and classism. You did an excellent job of highlighting the
unique differences between Head Start, home visiting programs, and family support services, and
how each of these systems attempts to increase access and overcome barriers. The podcast has
Dorothy Roberts‘ commentary, which gives us critical historical understanding to explain the
persistent issue of disparities better. Based on your TANF experience, it becomes obvious that
support systems are lacking and hoping for the expected parents to balance work with childcare
could not be more unrealistic. You underscored the miserable antithesis—claims to work
childless and parent without working simultaneously of which many people are only too familiar.
Support from community-based mutual aid is valuable if the services are lagging behind. Your
evaluation clearly indicates that early care programs are critical as not only programs, but as
critical works to eliminate existing social injustices.