California families are struggling to afford housing, electricity, insurance, gasoline, groceries, childcare — and now even diapers. Gavin Newsom’s answer? A government-branded box of free diapers handed out at the hospital. Under Newsom’s new Golden State Start program , California will provide 400 diapers to families with newborns leaving participating hospitals. Sounds generous. Until you do the math. California Gov. Gavin Newsom boxes diapers as part of the Baby2Baby nonprofit scheme. Getty Images for Baby2Baby A newborn can go through eight to 10 diapers a day. So 400 diapers lasts roughly five weeks. The cost to taxpayers is about $12.4 million this year alone. Newsom calls this “what affordability looks like.” No. It is what dependency looks like. Diapers are expensive . For struggling families, every dollar matters. There is nothing wrong with churches, synagogues, charities, neighbors, or extended families helping new parents through a difficult season. But that is not what this is.…