Decline in Children in Cities

[Gothampc]

Posted: 5/25/05 at 11:46am

Please let it decline in NYC. Especially on the UWS.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050524/ap_on_re_us/disappearing_kids_1

[robbiej]

Posted: 5/25/05 at 11:48am

I think kids are great.

It's their parents I cannot stand.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 5/25/05 at 11:53am

I think kids are great too. But children and dogs should not live in cities. They need room.

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 5/25/05 at 11:57am

We raise our three kids in the city and have no plans to moving to the burbs. I love the diversity of culture and people. And, my kids thrive here.

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 5/25/05 at 2:33pm

We're raising our son in New York City. I can't imagine a better place to raise a child. All of my siblings live in major US cities and are raising children there.

[BlueWizard]

Posted: 5/25/05 at 3:12pm

I grew up in a big city, and I wouldn't have traded the experience for the world. The city offers so much culture, diversity, entertainment and education for children.

The worst, absolute worst place to raise your kids, IMO, is the suburbs. I'm living in the suburbs right now; I've never met more spoiled, bored, rowdy and disobedient children and teenagers, ever.

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 5/25/05 at 3:17pm

"The worst, absolute worst place to raise your kids, IMO, is the suburbs. I'm living in the suburbs right now; I've never met more spoiled, bored, rowdy and disobedient children and teenagers, ever."

That was my youth. I never wanted that for my kids. That is one of the main reasons I want to continue to raise my kid in the city.

[#1Elphie]

Posted: 5/25/05 at 5:38pm

I grew up in the 'burbs and it's not so bad. You can have "spoiled, bored, rowdy and disobedient children and teenagers" anywhere. It's based on parenting, not location. But I do plan on moving to NYC the second I graduate from college and would love to stay there and raise a family in the city. I do agree that it provides lots of opportunities that the suburbs don't.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 5/25/05 at 5:40pm

The weirdest part about kids in NYC is how late you'll see the littlest ones out with their parents. I find that bizarre.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 5/25/05 at 6:06pm

"The weirdest part about kids in NYC is how late you'll see the littlest ones out with their parents. I find that bizarre."

I agree. I see these stupid parents schlepping their kids on the subway at midnight.

And children completely ruined Tavern on the Green! Last time I was there, there were two birthday parties going on. Balloons, clowns and all. They should have been at Chuck E. Cheese where they belong.

[grownupgroupie]

Posted: 5/25/05 at 6:10pm

Maybe I'm just getting really nostalgaic for the city, but part of what I loved about the UWS WAS the doggies and kiddies.

I know, shoot me now.

(But as a suburbanite by birth, I see major advantages to growing up in a city.)