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Dense housing did not prevent families from having children prior to the 1950s. It's really a matter of affordable housing and expectations. While I know families that have two children in a bedroom in bunk beds in a luxury condo in Manhattan, the reality is that there's an expectation that each child will have their own room. And housing prices are a major issue. It's hard to have children when a one-bedroom apartment goes for $4,500 per month. The other issue with cities is the sorry state of public education. Purchasing a home at over $1,000, a square foot and spending upwards of $50,000 a year per child on private education, prices out large families even for those in the 1%. Manhattan and San Francisco are extremes, but this is an issue in many of our cities and even many suburbs. Five decades of inflationary policies and a failure of conservatives to fix public education or implement school choice have National effects.

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All yes. And as to housing density, we address this issue (dos and don'ts) here:

https://www.rodmartin.org/p/the-inadvertent-one-child-policy

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That's part of it, no doubt. But it's awfully telling that most American women say they want to have larger families...but wait to late for that to be biologically possible.

Culture is lying to them. There's a reason the religious have much higher birthrates in most countries.

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And...not killing babies in the womb would probably help.

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NO KIDDING!

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Nearly all of us are victims of overcrowded environments. Our quality of life is constantly declining, adding more people to solve the ‘problem’ makes our lives worse.

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