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As a parent dealing with their midlife crisis and raising two children I can say this concept is high on my mind. What kind of world are they going to inherit when they can’t even run to their neighbors for help when something goes wrong? Who do they turn to when they want to help the community?

Something the article talks about is how morality is engendered not found. That the community teaches morality and that we need this or there are gaps in our humanity. Considering how we treat others is a learned skill it is also a taught and reenforced skill. How do we as a society wish our youths to treat each other? We need our systems to engender that.

>>sirsuk+(OP)
> As a parent dealing with their midlife crisis and raising two children...

Geezer reaction: If only this was ~1945 - ~1965 America, I'd say to find a nice little Protestant church* and start attending. An enormous number of such churches were either founded to meet such needs, or grew enormously during the baby boom.

(Not to say that any such churches were perfect. 50% of 'em were below average! But if you lived in a good-sized town, you'd probably have at least a few to chose from.)

*Assumpion - Roman Catholics, Jews, etc. would mentally translate this to "Catholic church", "synagogue", etc.

>>sirsuk+(OP)
I can't help but point to the rise of dual-income households as a leading cause of the lack of home communities. Who has the time to build a community when most adults are away for almost the entire day?

Nobody ever put a price tag on the value of a healthy living community, so the market is optimizing against it.