The Modern Family

Everyone deserves a community of care

Our vision is to create a world where everyone has access to a community of care by ensuring that families are defined by their function, not their form. We believe every single person deserves a site for love, resource-sharing, meaning-making, and care from birth to death.

Yet our most foundational systems are designed primarily for two-parent nuclear families, creating obstacles for forming, sustaining, and growing communities of care that exist outside this structure. We aim to change this ‘default,’ attacking the root cause of our joint crises of care, loneliness, and resource-sharing.

Our mission is to realign social, legal, and economic systems to support the many diverse ways people want to care for one another. To accomplish this mission, we draw on cutting-edge research to shift the cultural understanding of what makes a ‘good family,’ protect and empower diverse family structures through law & policy, and design better infrastructure to support diverse families.