Grosse Pointe Moms Club

Grosse Pointe Moms Club
Doug DuBois for TIME

Neighborhood
Kids cycle through a Grosse Pointe Farms intersection not far from the Country Club of Detroit. "The immaculate lawns and beautiful homes are a sort of facade that covers a growing loss of certainty in the future," says Robin Boyle, a professor of urban planning at Wayne State University.

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