The Future of the City Is Childless
Atlantic,
by
Derek Thompson
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
7/19/2019 5:26:52 AM
A few years ago, I lived in a walkup apartment in the East Village of New York. Every so often descending the stairway, I would catch a glimpse of a particular family with young children in its Sisyphean attempts to reach the fourth floor. The mom would fold the stroller to the size of a boogie board, then drag it behind her with her right hand, while cradling the younger and typically crying child in the crook of her left arm. Meanwhile, she would shout hygiene instructions in the direction of the older child, who would slap both hands against every other grimy step to use her little arms
Reply 1 - Posted by:
DaddyO 7/19/2019 5:42:16 AM (No. 127933)
"A world with no children... Future generations will thank us"
Stan Smith
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
franq 7/19/2019 6:08:08 AM (No. 127944)
It's already fatherless, for the most part.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 7/19/2019 7:01:23 AM (No. 127966)
No surprise. When you are killing them before, during, and after birth, you might expect the child population to take a downward turn.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
ByteGuru 7/19/2019 7:22:20 AM (No. 127976)
From a conservative perspective concentrating the bulk of the liberal-voting population in a few enclaves (CA, IL, NY) is a good thing. The last election is a good example. The bulk of the winning popular vote for Clintoon came from California. Since California is a democRAT sure thing in the electoral college, it makes no difference if Clinton wins by 1 vote or 10mm votes, the electoral college votes remain the same. The effect in CA is if you are a conservative, you are a voting minority and your vote essentially does not matter. If you are a flaming liberal, you are in the overwhelming majority so your vote also does not matter much as it will not change the number of electoral college votes assigned to CA.
So getting liberals to move to the big cities should be encouraged. We should also encourage the illegal population to move to the large population enclaves so when they vote (you know they do or will eventually), it has little impact on the predictable outcome in their state.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
voxpopuli 7/19/2019 8:05:40 AM (No. 128003)
Sounds like Winston Smith's London.. in 1984
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My thoughts on that is, "Not for long".
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Vesicant 7/19/2019 8:33:49 AM (No. 128029)
Um, hello? Has he never heard of the term 'dinks' -- dual income, no kids -- which has been around since yuppies in the 1980s?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Rather Read 7/19/2019 8:50:37 AM (No. 128050)
Read the novel Children of Men by P.D. James.
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Well who will serve them in restaurants and clean their homes and drive them around town?
Oh, immigrants....right.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
MDConservative 7/19/2019 10:18:23 AM (No. 128132)
This is news?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
aliciacolon 7/19/2019 10:28:57 AM (No. 128143)
When I lived in Manhattan I used to get dirty looks pushing my two kids in a stroller while obviously pregnant with my third. After buying a house in conservative Staten Island I was thrilled to find loads of large families being welcomed in restaurants with their triple strollers. Love it here in Middle America still in NYC.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Philipsonh 7/19/2019 11:15:59 AM (No. 128180)
It isn't JUST the major cities,. Even smaller cities have become unlivable for families with children The costs are enormous and the schools are poor, in fact, often dangerous. Only higher income folks can afford the living expenses and they move to areas with excellent school districts. So you have younger singles living in higher priced apts, lower income people living in the 'poorer' neighborhoods, and higher income folks moving outside the core, or to a suburb. If we moved 20-30 miles from where we live our expenses would drop considerably, depending on which direction we went, but we have been on our block for over 30 years and it is one of the few that are livable. We can afford it, are used to it, and are in the middle of most places we frequent., in all directions, most being within a 1/2 hour drive. EX: library 5 minutes, pharmacy 15 minutes, auto repair 10 minutes, supermarkets 10-15 minutes, credit union 5 minutes, bank 15 minutes, etc. It is an ideal location for us, even though the environment, such as traffic, has become very bad.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/19/2019 5:07:44 PM (No. 128432)
Raising children in a big city, any city, must be a horrific experience these days. There is no such thing as outside playtime, no throwing the frisbee to the dog, no tree-climbing, no bicycle rides on long dirt roads. There's also no such thing as a stay-at-home-parent with the cost of living requiring both parents to work, unless you a single parasite - I mean parent. Then there are the perverts and the kidnappers. No thank you.
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It's about numbers. Numbers don't lie, neither does birthrate. If you have none, I have two, Muzlims have 14, Haitians have seven, and blacks have five, who wins?
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