The shrinking state expects families to fill the gaps in health and social services. Woe to those who are childless | Gaby Hinsliff
meIt was visiting time at the hospital and the corridors were full of dutiful middle-aged sons and daughters. The woman holding the ward door open for me was balancing a monstrous stack of Tupperware boxes: home-cooked food, in case the nurses were too busy to make sure her elderly father ate. Why hadn’t I thought … Read more