– Why is parenting so difficult?
Parenting
infrastructure is broken.
Modern parenting is fragmented across apps, providers, services, and public programs, leaving more than 51 million parents in the U.S. isolated and unsupported
– that's why I'm building Dadamom™, a unified parenting infrastructure platform.
See the Evidence
  • 51M+
    PARENTS IN THE U.S.
    U.S. Census Bureau
  • 48%
    PARENTS OVERWHELMED DAILY
    U.S. Surgeon General
  • 76%
    DO NOT HAVE PAID CHILDCARE
    Federal Reserve SHED
  • 0
    UNIFIED PARENTING PLATFORMS
    The opportunity
PARENTING PROBLEM
Federal, state, and local governments increasingly recognize a parenting infrastructure gap.
Parents face rising stress, isolation, and growing difficulty accessing trusted support. Children are affected through poorer mental health outcomes and reduced access to early care. Childcare remains expensive, fragmented, and unevenly distributed across communities. These challenges point to one thing: parents need infrastructure that helps them navigate services, build support networks, and access the resources already available to them.
U.S. Surgeon General, 2024
Parents Under Pressure
48% of parents overwhelmed daily. Advisory recognizes parental mental health and well-being as a national public health priority, emphasizing that the well-being of parents and caregivers is directly linked to the well-being of their children.
HHS.GOV
U.S. Department of the Treasury, 2024
Supporting Families Strengthens Economic Participation
The Treasury emphasizes that improving the well-being of young adults and families supports labor force participation, long-term economic opportunity, and broader national prosperity.
TREASURY.GOV
Administration for Children and Families, 2024
Fatherhood Programs Show Demand But Infrastructure Underdeveloped
A multi-year federal study testing what works in father-focused parenting programs. The initiative confirms federal recognition that fathers are underserved in the parenting support ecosystem.
ACF.GOV
U.S. Surgeon General, 2023
Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation
Parents identified as a primary group affected by the national loneliness epidemic, with documented downstream impact on child outcomes.
HHS.GOV
Federal Reserve, 2025
Only 24% of 51M+ Parents with Children Under 13 Use Paid Childcare
76% of 51M+ parents do NOT use paid childcare, relying instead on unpaid relatives, reducing work hours, or going without. Women are significantly more likely to be primary caregivers and reduce paid work. This represents a massive underserved market with suppressed demand.
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2025
Essential Family Services Are Becoming Less Affordable
The affordability of essential services such as child care and health care has become an increasing challenge for American families, reducing disposable income and creating barriers to accessing necessary care.
HHS.GOV
U.S. Department of Commerce, 2024
Childcare = 51% of Monthly Housing Costs (Second Largest Family Expense)
Median childcare-paying families spend $867/month on childcare vs. $1,700 on housing. Commerce Department concludes: "If child care is half as much [as housing], that makes it a large contributor to many family budgets." Low-income families reduce work instead — at direct cost to their financial security.
COMMERCE.GOV
U.S. Department of Labor, 2023
Childcare Costs Equal 19.3% of Median Family Income — Untenable
Childcare for an infant in a center costs up to $19,040/year (adjusted to 2024 dollars) — 19.3% of a family's median income. The DOL calls this "untenable for families" and notes it exceeds rent across the 100 largest U.S. metro areas.
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Health Resources and Services Administration, 2023
Childcare Need and Availability in Rural Areas
55% of rural children under 5 live in childcare deserts — 3+ children per available slot in affected counties across the U.S.
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Congresswoman Katherine Clark, 2023
Childcare Crisis Costs the U.S. $122 Billion Per Year in Lost Economic Output
Insufficient infant/toddler care costs the country $122 billion/year in lost earnings, productivity, and tax revenue — more than double the $57 billion estimate from 2018. Employers lose $23 billion/year. Taxpayers lose an average of $1,500 per working parent annually.
HOUSE.GOV
Massachusetts Department of Mental Health, 2024
Families Cannot Navigate Fragmented System
"Navigating complex service systems, delays and fragmented care were identified as significant challenges for families, compounded by high costs and insurance coverage complexities." State formally acknowledges that service fragmentation creates "service inefficiencies and reduced quality of care."
MASS.GOV
U.S. Administration for Children and Families, 2025
Strengthening Families Is a Federal Priority (Congressional Budget Justification)
The FY 2025 budget prioritizes investments that strengthen families, improve child well-being, expand access to child care, support healthy development, and improve economic mobility. These investments recognize that supporting families is a national policy priority.  
ACF.GOV
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024
Childcare Industry Employment Collapsed 34% in 2020
Childcare services employment dropped 33.9% from April 2019 to April 2020 — more than twice the national rate of decline. 83% of childcare establishments told employees not to work, revealing the extreme fragility of U.S. childcare supply infrastructure.
BLS.GOV
NY State Office of the Comptroller, 2025
60% of New York Census Tracts Are Childcare Deserts
60% of New York census tracts qualify as childcare deserts (3+ children under 5 per available slot). Provider numbers were declining even before COVID-19, with 80%+ of losses occurring in home-based care.
NY.GOV
Wisconsin Prevention Board, 2025
"Five for Families" Initiative Acknowledges Platform Gap
The HHS "Five for Families" initiative explicitly calls for "expanded awareness and access" to Family Resource Centers as critical infrastructure. It identifies the core problem as parents not knowing what resources exist or how to access them.
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Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care, 2026
Many Families Have Limited Interaction With Formal Child Care Systems
The report notes that families using Family, Friend, and Neighbor care often have limited interaction with formal child care programs and government assistance systems, reducing awareness of available resources.
MASS.GOV
MY SOLUTION
Every part of parenting lives in its own app,
Dadamom™ builds the infrastructure to bring it all together.
Families are expected to navigate care, education, health, social connection, places, schedules, and public support through disconnected systems. This isn’t a parenting problem. It’s a systems problem. It needs infrastructure, not another app competing for attention.
SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE
Helping fathers connect and participate through inclusive parenting communities.
Today’s parenting platforms default to mothers, leaving fathers with no dedicated inclusive space to connect and be present.

Dadamom builds:
Next-generation, parent inclusive matching, local communities, and playdates that include fathers from day one, not bolted on later. The same real friendships and support network mothers have had access to for years, now open to dads too.
MARKET INFRASTRUCTURE
Reducing information asymmetry across family services.
Today’s family services lack transparency. Prices and availability for childcare and family services aren't transparent, parents can't easily find or compare offers nearby.

Dadamom builds:
Easier discovery, price comparison, navigation, and booking of local family-friendly places and parent-free activities that help parents make better decisions, find trusted support, and get time back for what actually matters.
FAMILY INFRASTRUCTURE
Eliminating fragmentation across everyday parenting.
Today’s parenting experience is fragmented across disconnected digital and non-digital services. That fragmentation contributes to parental stress and weaker demographic outcomes.

Dadamom builds:
Unified family dashboard, AI support, reminders, and trusted recommendations making everyday family life less stressful, less isolated, and more supported in practice.
GOVERNMENT INFRASTRUCTURE
Improving access to public programs and family support.
Today’s public programs are spread across fragmented and complex channels, making them difficult for families to discover, understand, and access.

Dadamom builds:
A location-aware discovery and communication layer that helps authorized public partners share verified programs and helps parents navigate relevant support inside one calmer experience.
Think of it as the operating system for family life: one place instead of the 6–10 apps parents juggle today.

U.S. Parenting Problem
Parents are overloaded, isolated, and underserved.
Market Failure
Family services are fragmented, expensive, and hard to access.
Dadamom™ Solution
A unified parenting infrastructure platform for discovery, support, organization, and connection.
National Benefit
  1. Stronger families;
  2. Reduced parental stress;
  3. Lower information asymmetry;
  4. Higher workforce participation;
  5. Better child outcomes;
  6. More efficient public investments.
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ABOUT PETE GALOTCHKIN
Father of two, building Dadamom, the unified infrastructure for parents.
I am Pete Galotchkin, the founder of Dadamom. My wife Lena and I have two children, Felix and Vera. Becoming a father exposed me to the fragmentation parents face every day across childcare, healthcare, education, community, and public support. That experience led me to build Dadamom.

One of the most overlooked problems in modern society is that parenting remains fragmented, stressful, and poorly supported by existing digital and service ecosystems. Dadamom brings together parents, trusted family-friendly places, child-related services, and practical tools for everyday family life.

I believe parenting is not only a private family responsibility, but also a major social and economic infrastructure issue. Better support for parents can strengthen families, expand access to reliable services, support workforce participation, and contribute to long-term demographic resilience.

Before founding Dadamom, I led ventures across fintech, hospitality operations, business consulting, and public-sector innovation. Those experiences shaped my approach to building scalable digital infrastructure.
Let's talk.
Interested in Dadamom? Want to partner, join the team, invest, advise, or discuss the future of parenting infrastructure?

ceo@dadamom.com