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[quote=Anonymous]Apologies if this has been posted before.  The Atlantic ran a long story on how the fabric of booming cities doesn't include children any more.  This fits well with what I see around DC.  The city is growing and improving but most of this improvement is explicitly NOT designed for families with children.  Small apartments, bars and restaurants over playgrounds, scarcity of good childcare options.  It's interesting to see the stats behind that.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/where-have-all-the-children-gone/594133/

"Since 2011, the number of babies born in New York has declined 9 percent in the five boroughs and 15 percent in Manhattan. (At this rate, Manhattan’s infant population will halve in 30 years.) In that same period, the net number of New York residents leaving the city has more than doubled. There are many reasons New York might be shrinking, but most of them come down to the same unavoidable fact: Raising a family in the city is just too hard. And the same could be said of pretty much every other dense and expensive urban area in the country."....

"In high-density cities like San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, D.C., no group is growing faster than rich college-educated whites without children, according to Census analysis by the economist Jed Kolko. By contrast, families with children older than 6 are in outright decline in these places. In the biggest picture, it turns out that America’s urban rebirth is missing a key element: births."

"It’s a coast-to-coast trend: In Washington, D.C., the overall population has grown more than 20 percent this century, but the number of children under the age of 18 has declined. Meanwhile, San Francisco has the lowest share of children of any of the largest 100 cities in the U.S."

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