> Why would a city actually want kids? Long-term planning over short-term exploitation. Being a good place to raise children is crucial to keep people in the

> Why would a city actually want kids? Long-term planning over short-term exploitation. Being a good place to raise children is crucial to keep people in the city long-term. When people decide to stay in the city long-term and put down roots, they develop a stronger emotional attachment to that place, and invest more of their personal energy into making it better. Investing solely in young people who plan to leave introduces a pump-and-dump mentality to the city's voters and thus into its municipality. It makes it politically untenable to invest in, say, large infrastructure projects which will cause much discomfort in the short term but are necessary in the long term. It's also necessary to combat discrimination, particularly ageism. If every "old" person who has kids moves away, then there are fewer "old" people in the city's labor market. The less visible "old" people are at work, the more that they are stereotyped and ultimately discriminated against. This reinforces a common work culture of valuing inexperienced workers over experienced workers and hurts the industry in the long term.