Create residential developments modelled on senior living communities but designed for households with young children — shared childcare facilities, play infrastructure, and career‑family integration supports to reduce isolation and lower the cost of childrearing for young parents. These would be planned at neighborhood scale to normalize larger families and make early family formation more feasible.
— If implemented at scale, such communities could change social visibility, reduce childcare friction, and become a targeted policy lever to raise local fertility and stabilize school enrollments.
Arnold Kling
2026.03.12
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Brad Wilcox’s recommendation (citing retrospective demographic analysis) to ease social pressure to delay family formation and to create ‘junior living’ analogues is the concrete policy seed in the article.
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