Parenting on a good day can be deranged. Parenting on a bad day is also deranged. Parenting in an emergency and the failure of infrastructure is called rock and role. $1.39 per meal per kid on Snap. A complete failure. The number of hungry American children has doubled. The failure of American institutions hits kids the hardest. They’re cold. They’re hungry. There is another American failure no one talks about – loneliness. They’re home alone. Public policy never means kids. Many parents who are compelled to leave their children during the day – many parents have two jobs, and both are deemed essential – lock their children in the house, and don’t call Daddy if he’s at work. Single parents just fall apart at the seams. How is Texas related to parenting. Parenting is a rolling blackout. Harsh snow days means no bus. No bus means no gig economy. No gig economy means your water can be turned off – not by the weather – but by no cash to pay the water bill. Lose electric, but if you can get to work, you can face being expected to make up work for people who cannot get there. It’s called overtime and is commonly a pittance. Your world rocks and rolls. Your kids were alone in the dark when you went to work. Your kids are in the dark when you get home. A six-year-old boiling water on a stove. Grandma goes to the house to babysit, but falls on the ice. She breaks a hip (common with the elderly and ice) and the kids do not know what to do. There is no battery power for the phone. The six-year-old ends up in his underwear rocking and sobbing in a corner. Grandma is still outside. The kids drag her into the house. Love is not infrastructure. The majority of cases facing child endangerment are single parents. I lived alone in San Francisco with my kid. We lived at 22nd Street and Delores. Right by Delores Park. I had to have toddler day care because I worked. I found it at the YMCA. It was free. I needed it to be free. But my biggest nightmare was an earthquake. We had three. What goes on in your mind is — what if. What if. Anyone who has a child today is deranged.