Children Are Not Allowed Here
I would rank this up near the top of the characteristics I require in an acceptable retirement environment:
From behind the wheel of his minivan, Bill Szentmiklosi scours the streets of Sun City in search of zoning violations like unkempt yards and illegal storage sheds. Mostly, though, he is on the lookout for that most egregious of all infractions: children.
With a clipboard of alleged violations to investigate, he peers over fences and ambles into backyards of one of America’s pioneer retirement communities, a haven set aside exclusively for adults, where children are allowed to visit but not live.
See the full article on the child-ban in Sun City.
Didn’t federal law do away with apartment complexes that banned children back in the 1970s?
I wish Sun City would franchise or license restaurants and movie theaters.
I don’t know about federal law, but I do know there are local ordinances that try to foist children on all the rest of us. Whatever happened to freedom of contract?
The article had to mention several times that these people are not anti-children only because their acts scream for this accusation.
If the reason to move into this community really is “not be bothered [by children] anymore,” then even when (rather, if) these people had children, they lacked any real love for them. Children are a bother only if one does not understand that happiness demands sacrifice. Or again, children are a bother when one considers his or her immediate pleasure to be the highest principle for action. Ironically, using the same principle, the elderly may also be considered bothersome.
Euthanasia and a decreasing fertility rate are the result of this hedonism.
Euthanasia on the rise
Shrinking global child population
The article explains the primary reason Sun City strongly enforces its ban on children is to avoid losing their special age restriction. Without the right to restrict young people, Sun City would have to increase real estate taxes to build schools and pay for teachers.
Yes, the article points out the utility of not having children around, but based on what the interviewed individuals stated, this is not the primary reason for living in such a community. Nevertheless, how is fiscal utility the measure of what one ought to do?
I have heard similar arguments related to retirement communities that must refuse anyone under 62 (or 55 if married to a 62-year-old) because it threatens their protected status.