EditorialIsabel Galán, top, shops for supplies to make decorations that might earn a few dollars, in the Bronx on May 20, 2021, with her children and a child she is babysitting. (Desiree Rios/The New York Times)
EditorialRosa Jimenez, who was imprisoned after being convicted of murder in the death of a toddler who choked on paper towels while she was babysitting him in 2003, at the Mountain View Unit prison in Gatesville, Texas, Sept. 11, 2012. (Brandon Thibodeaux/The New York Times)
EditorialAmanda Adedokun and her daughter, London, 8, outside their apartment in the West Farms neighborhood of the Bronx on Sept. 18, 2020. (Amr Alfiky/The New York Times)