In the last year, Michelle Arnot, President of GPNYC and I both became grandparents. Like so many new grandparents, we expected joy, awe, and an overwhelming sense of love. We got all of that. What we did not expect was fear. There was a time when the birth of a child in the United States was widely seen as an honor—an unquestioned marker of opportunity, safety, and possibility. It did not mean life would be easy, but it carried a promise that the future could be faced with h
