Joel Kotkin wrote in a recent article for Newsweek, "Once everyone is forced into a small city place, there's literally no room left for kids."
There might be densities where there is "no room left for kids." But not in America. A recent New York Times article notes that Kiryas Joel, NY (a Hasidic enclave) has 18,000 people in 3000 families on 1.1 square miles. When you do the math, you find that this community has around 16,000 people per square mile (more than any American city but NYC) and 6 people per family, a lot more than most American households.
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