There is something wrong with a society that does not like to be around kids.
Years ago my Mother told me she was at a neighborhood ladies’ coffee party and one retired schoolteacher was complaining about taxes, and that she should not have to pay for taxes for schools since she had no children of her own. My Mother who was extraordinarally wise, was irate at the hypocracy of a person whose lifelong job was in education making such a statement.
It sounds a lot like the adults who lived in the Neuschwanstein castle in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Our school district exempts people over 65 from paying school taxes on homesteads.
“There is something wrong with a society that does not like to be around kids.”
They keep you young and aware of what life is all about. Not self, self and self. Young parents need an older person to ask is this normal when a child melts down over something. Some people forget it happens in the best of families. Visit one of the adult only retirement developments they are a breeding ground for stupid liberal ideas. More chad problems per square block than in the real world.
I’d also flip that around and say that ‘there is something wrong with a society that produces children no one wants to be around’.