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Ageing and thus wonky demographics, with few children to support many elders, arises in part because of an insufficiently shared burden of municipal childrearing. Ending the ghetto of retirement communities by incorporating them more into childrearing is both healthy & practical. One recently leaned towards segregating the youth in 'youth demographic zones' which have artificially imposed, healthily smooth demographic bell curves. But greater blending of the elderly with the children would probably be more effective and practical across society as opposed to a more limited yet more complicated special demographic zone. Plainly, in many places of the world now there are too few children; and these are expected to care for far too many elders. This is not healthy, and it is a challenge to which we must necessarily find sane, healthy and practical solutions. Traditional family values involving specifically a nuclear family of a man with a woman and their children are good; but...

Birth rate goes down in cities because the burden of a child increases and the benefit of a child as labor decreases. It follows from the employment of women equally with men that parenting must become more healthily distributed in society to make up the difference in nurturance. We have not progressed if our 'progress' reaches a state in which healthy demographics cannot assimilate modern developments. Healthy demographics do not leave a few youths caring for many elders!  But if you distribute the burden of childrearing in the cities more equitably -- which can take a plethora of different forms! -- then you reduce the cost not only financially but also in relation to parents' lifeforce.  Why lifeforce? Because nothing less than the lifeforce of parents and the overall demographics of society depends on a healthier way of raising children and marrying people than the present model of family values. This present model of family values, with its insistence on a man and woma...