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Its often surprised me how anti-children many of the people in the West are. Children make noise, children are the future of your society. You make it difficult
by distant_hat 4y ago
Its often surprised me how anti-children many of the people in the West are. Children make noise, children are the future of your society. You make it difficult for families to live and children to be children and then are surprised when demographics are getting worse with no young folks. Interestingly, in India, the discrimination is the other way round and bachelors and unmarried folks find it harder to rent. Here there is no protection against that and a lot of listings, especially in good neighborhoods will explicitly specifiy, families only. People will conjure up parents and bring them over for a few months sometimes to make it look like they are a 'family'.
- beebmam 4y agoIt's not just the west. It's even worse in Chinese cities, for example. Maybe has something to do with age demographics.
- luckylion 4y agoI don't mind children, but I prefer to not live around dysfunctional families that make the children run their household. People who say stuff like "children noise is the music of the future" have never lived below a family with children that really made noise (or I guess maybe they have, but they've lived in a bunker). I have, and you no longer live alone, you live with the constant noise that's sometimes higher, sometimes lower, but it's never gone unless you get ear plugs. I'm fine with children, but they need to have adults that reign them in. That's a coin flip, so I wouldn't ever move anywhere again, knowing that families with children live above/below/next to me.
- lynx23 4y agoFull ACK. However, we are quite a minority. However, parents dont want to hear about their responsibilities...
- DiggyJohnson 4y agoACK==acknowledge?
- lynx23 4y agoI'd argue the parents of said children are anti-children, because they are living in an apartment building without any possibility to play for the children nearby. There is nothing they can use outdoors to get rid of excess energy. Parents could have found something a few kilometers away, but apparently did not care about their chldren. I dont see why I should be especially understanding if the parents are unwilling to live somewhere where their children can have fun. The fact remains that they are very loud and parents apparently are bad at parenting.
- simplotek 4y ago> I'd argue the parents of said children are anti-children, because they are living in an apartment building without any possibility to play for the children nearby. What do you have to say about the fact that apartments are the only option? It feels to me that you're trying to depict not living in a nice suburban villa as subjecting children to abuse, as if this was a whimsical decision of egotistical parents. Meanwhile, moving to the suburbs is a luxury that's way out of the reach of working class families, not to mention the fact that outside of the US it's outright unthinkable. And all the time wasted commuting is not considered abuse why? To me it reads you're claiming "let them eat cake", followed up by "not letting children eat cake is anti-children."
- lynx23 4y agoI know for a fact that child-friendly-suburbian appartments are actually cheaper then the city-center-appartment they have now. But you can go on and assume all sorts of bad things about me, that doesnt change my opinion about egotistical parents.
- selimthegrim 4y ago> bachelors and unmarried folks find it harder to rent. Muslims as well