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This seems puzzling at first, but isn't if you think about it for more than a second.  Poor people have many children.  Affluent families have few children.  DC's households are getting more affluent.  That means there are fewer and fewer large households.  Ten years ago, it was common to see 900 square foot rowhouses with extended families and a half dozen children.  In another 10 or 20 years, we'll see family sizes trend towards the norm of an average of 1.5 kids per household.

The decline in children 5 to 17 is just another indicator that DC is healing.[/quote]

The "quality over quantity" argument would hold more water if the poverty rate in DC were not increasing at the same time.   You have a hypothesis, but not evidence.  [/quote]

You're misunderstanding what the "poverty rate" tells us.  It's misleading as an indicator.  Poor people have many kids.  Wealthy people don't.  We should be looking at median household income as an indicator of demographic change.  That continues to increase.[/quote]

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