ABSTRACT
At the beginning of Chapter 1, I posed five sets of questions about the capacity to care that I aimed to address in this book:
• What is the capacity to care and why does it matter? • How is it acquired? What are its origins in the early development of self and
morality? • Are women better at caring than men and, if so, is this likely to change
with contemporary changes in parenting and gender relations? What would constitute a good-enough family, as opposed to good-enough mothering?
