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Trump is trying to pay his way into a US baby boom. Experts say it won’t work
(www.theguardian.com)
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$5000???
Hahahahaha
Give me a house. Anything short of 1500 sqft, 3br, 1.5ba, on a half acre or more is just not enough for my gf and I to even consider.
And we are both gainfully employed.
Half acre? You don't need that much space for kids 😂
True, but kids aren't free-range anymore the way they were when I was growing up in the '80s & '90s. It didn't used to matter if you had a small backyard if you had a big neighborhood to roam. But from what I understand, kids aren't allowed to just get on their bikes and go explore like they used to. Larger yards give kids a place to play, to get some fresh air and exercise instead of being indoors glued to a screen.
My in laws have an acre and their kids mostly play on about ⅒ of it because that's where their stuff is, give people parks and they can live with a smaller yard. It's not sustainable to give everyone ½ an acre.
As a kid I'd spend a lot of time in local forests, go to a local park to play. The benefit of these spaces is you can have all your friends meet up with you. Manhunt in a 1/2 acre backyard would be way more boring than access to various parks and forested areas.
There are also activities like sports, camps, boy scouts/girl guides that kids can participate in to get outdoors time.
Then quit being fucking paranoid cowards and fix that!
Welp I don't have children and it would be highly weird if I went around forcing other people's kids to go play free-range so....