{"id":74402,"date":"2023-02-17T19:19:29","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T19:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/?p=74402"},"modified":"2023-05-29T22:38:43","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T21:38:43","slug":"growing-up-in-a-feminist-commune-made-me-the-man-i-am-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2023\/02\/17\/growing-up-in-a-feminist-commune-made-me-the-man-i-am-today\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Growing up in a feminist commune made me the man I am today&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Cardiff politician Caro Wild is proud of his \u2018hippie\u2019 upbringing in a feminist commune which gave him his name<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>HE\u2019S one of the most high profile politicians at <a href=\"https:\/\/cardiff.moderngov.co.uk\/mgUserInfo.aspx?UID=751\">Cardiff council<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most people know him as the Cabinet member tasked with tackling climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But what most people don\u2019t know about Caro Wild is the story of his unconventional upbringing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was raised by his feminist mother Bridget in a commune alongside other families, some of whom he still considers brothers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bridget was also a Greenham Common activist &#8211; one of the thousands of women who protested the British Government holding nuclear weapons in the notorious RAF base.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And he was even given his surname, Wild, as part of a social experiment set up by feminists looking to break the mould of a nuclear family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He\u2019s happy to brand it a \u201chippie upbringing\u201d. \u201cThey were trying to change the world, really,\u201d he said. \u201cBut one thing they were very much trying to change was the idea of the nuclear family and some of those traditions they just weren\u2019t happy with.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/02\/Bridget-ROBSON-gREENHAM.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-74408\" width=\"816\" height=\"609\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/02\/Bridget-ROBSON-gREENHAM.jpg 512w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/02\/Bridget-ROBSON-gREENHAM-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/02\/Bridget-ROBSON-gREENHAM-293x219.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 816px) 100vw, 816px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/02\/Bridget-ROBSON-gREENHAM.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-74408\" width=\"816\" height=\"609\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/02\/Bridget-ROBSON-gREENHAM.jpg 512w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/02\/Bridget-ROBSON-gREENHAM-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/02\/Bridget-ROBSON-gREENHAM-293x219.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 816px) 100vw, 816px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Barefoot Bridget Robson and other protesters at Greenham Common. Image: Caro Wild<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Caro&#8217;s unconventional upbringing began with his mother heavily investing in tearing down the expectations and traditions of the nuclear family. As a result, she moved into a large feminist commune in Leeds.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A feminist commune is a communal style of living with mostly mothers working together to raise their children. Most communes would raise all the children from different biological parents as siblings.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Inside the communes, housework was shared and not gendered. Everyone did their fair share of cooking, cleaning and child-minding. Men were welcome but of course were expected to also do their fair share of housework.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first commune was set up in North London. Eventually the idea had spread across the UK with communes popping up in big cities like Leeds and Sheffield. By 1974 there were more than 10 Wild communes in the UK.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"512\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/02\/cARO-wILD-AND-HIS-MOTHER-BRIDGET-ROBSON-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-74411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/02\/cARO-wILD-AND-HIS-MOTHER-BRIDGET-ROBSON-1.jpg 512w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/02\/cARO-wILD-AND-HIS-MOTHER-BRIDGET-ROBSON-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/02\/cARO-wILD-AND-HIS-MOTHER-BRIDGET-ROBSON-1-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/02\/cARO-wILD-AND-HIS-MOTHER-BRIDGET-ROBSON-1-293x293.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/02\/cARO-wILD-AND-HIS-MOTHER-BRIDGET-ROBSON-1-390x390.jpg 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/02\/cARO-wILD-AND-HIS-MOTHER-BRIDGET-ROBSON-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-74411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/02\/cARO-wILD-AND-HIS-MOTHER-BRIDGET-ROBSON-1.jpg 512w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/02\/cARO-wILD-AND-HIS-MOTHER-BRIDGET-ROBSON-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/02\/cARO-wILD-AND-HIS-MOTHER-BRIDGET-ROBSON-1-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/02\/cARO-wILD-AND-HIS-MOTHER-BRIDGET-ROBSON-1-293x293.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/02\/cARO-wILD-AND-HIS-MOTHER-BRIDGET-ROBSON-1-390x390.jpg 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Caro Wild and his mother Bridget Robson. Image: Caro Wild<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Caro did not quite experience an extreme communal upbringing because his mother, Bridget Robson, moved him into a smaller commune when he was an infant.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Caro, who&#8217;s now 46, his mother was slightly uncomfortable with how some of the bigger communes were run and some of the extreme ideas to raise children unaware of who their biological parents are.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI very much knew who my mum was and had a very close mother and son relationship,\u201d he said.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Around the time Caro was born, his mother moved into a smaller commune of just three adults and another child, Jim, who he thought of as a brother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy brother Jim Wild was in the same year as me at school and I would say he was my brother &#8211; but we looked completely different, so people would say \u2018how can you be brothers\u2019.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Caro thought of people from the Wild communes as his family. However it was not an easy relationship to explain to his fellow classmates.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In school, Caro said: \u201cIt was not very cool.&nbsp;I think for anyone growing up you don\u2019t really want to be considered different.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As he grew up, Caro did continue to spend weekends with his extended Wild family at the larger communes, even though his mother had moved out.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said: \u201cI think everyone had different experiences, generally people are quite positive about it and they enjoyed the fact that they had different guardians and lots of love.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBut I think for some people they didn\u2019t like certain aspects of communal living and they would have preferred to have \u2018normal upbringing\u2019.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Caro was 13 years old, he says his already large family  become more diverse when his father, Hugo Storey, an Australian human rights lawyer, fell in love with a Pakistani woman and converted to Islam. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Caro said: \u201cGetting to experience that Islamic culture was brilliant.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was no culture shock for Caro as he switched between the feminist commune on weekdays and his Muslim family on weekends. At school, he said he was one of only seven white children in his class so diversity within his family felt no different.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By his 20s, Caro began his version of a rebellion as he moved to London to work with the English Rugby League.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGoing from growing up in a hippie household with a feminist mother and human rights campaigners, my rebellion was getting into sports and laddism to then eventually getting married and taking the more traditional way of life,\u201d he said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After over 10 years of working in the English Rugby League, Caro moved to Wales to get involved in Welsh Rugby.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Cardiff he continued his involvement in organisations such as Street Games which was established to improve the lives of children from deprived areas through sports.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/02\/caro-head.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-74461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/02\/caro-head.jpg 200w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/02\/caro-head-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/02\/caro-head.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-74461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/02\/caro-head.jpg 200w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/02\/caro-head-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Riverside Councillor and Cabinet Member for Climate Change Caro Wild. 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I like being in a party with people who can disagree with me.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Caro believes his upbringing had a huge influence on his involvement in politics.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said: \u201cAll of my parents were involved in politics; my mum was a feminist but also peace campaigner and my father was a human rights lawyer. 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