I don't have a problem with her wish (to each her own), but how is she so optimistic that adults would be better behaved? Drunk adults are louder than kids.

The problem is a lack of child spaces. Not spaces where your kids are allowed, places optimised FOR children. When I was a kid, there were three or four play places on the local high street that were free to use, very cheap, or in stores/cafes and were free with purchase. Also, a lot of places like banks and cafes had a small area with toys (like the bead tracks, or legos) for kids to entertain themselves whilst their parents did boring adult stuff. These give the kids an opportunity to let off steam, and thus they're less screamy and annoying. Nowadays, these things are all gone because they don't make lots of profit, so public spaces with kids in are full of overstimulated, under-exercised children who are loud and cranky.

If the adults in the neighborhood are responsible adults, then children will not be a problem. If the adults in the neighborhood are not responsible adults, you've got big problems whether there are children there or not.

As a single, 35+ woman I can say this with all the honesty in my heart, I would love an adult only neighborhood. I hate kids and haven't had any of my own for a reason, so how come every time I go somewhere with my friends (non-alcoholic places) I have to put up with other people's? From restaurants, to movie theaters, to grocery/clothing shopping, someone has brought their kid and they're completely unable to keep the damn thing quiet. So I would pack up my animals and move in a heartbeat to an adult only neighborhood, just add my name to the wait list for it.

I'm just glad I'm not the only person (woman, especially) who doesn't have positive emotions about children. I was once told I had to "heal" because I didn't want kids. At work. By a subordinate. To my boss.

FINALLY someone says what I'm thinking! Look I don't care if u have kids,more power to you. But I don't have them for a reason and I don't think they should be thrown at me whenever a parent feels like not taking care of them. I know parents hate hearing this but you made a decision and it's not my responsibility to have to deal with your obnoxious crotch goblin.

Yes they never should've taken adult only apartments away. And for that lady saying retirement home, that is not true they won't allow us to live there because we're not old enough

I have 2 small kids and felt sorry for my neighbours during the lockdowns. My little ones had nowhere to go to and no way to let the excess energy out. I installed a trampoline and some other garden playground fixtures for them, so they spent the day outside often screaming and chanting nonsense. We tried to keep the volume down initially but gave up, they're kids doing kids stuff after all. There are another 2 families in the little otherwise quiet street we live in. I totally see the point in freaking out if you're trying to chill in your garden. On the other hand my kids are very well behaved in public places and we had lots of work in this. Even I hate when kids are running around screaming in a shop or worst like restaurant. It is the parents responsibility and I think sh*try parents should be ashamed when their kids can't behave

Fellow humans- I am really distressed that no one seems to see that the actual problem is awful behavior from the children, which stems directly from awful parenting/behavior of the adults around them. A well behaved and polite child is wonderful to interact with (or don't interact with! Kids are capable of pulling out a book and chilling, IF TRAINED). I have kids, I love kids, I am a teacher and work with kids, but it is infuriating and mind blowing to see how many kids can act like little AHs and no one stops them or escorts them away from polite company. That's just bad training and that kid will grow into an adult who is just as much a selfish AH. Look inward, Society! Kids are just doing what they are being trained to do. Train them differently and we HUMANS can all live together on planet earth.

I like that idea for sure. People deserve to live how they want with whomever they want. I have kids and don't mind other kids, but I think I can respect that MY life choices aren't for everyone. As for the question if a resident gets pregnant, then they have to leave... That's fair

More times than not it's parents letting their little spawn do whatever they please. When my son was age 4-12, he was an absolute angel in public. Never ran around & screamed, never threw a fit if he didn't get his way, was never a spoiled brat. I was single mom & made sure he had manners. He's almost 37 & still a very well mannered young man. It begins with the parents. Honestly, when I'm in Walmart or any other store, it's as if every child in the county is there, screaming at the top of their lungs & parents doing nothing to curtail that horrid behavior. I completely get where this young lady is coming from.

Love it when people conveniently forget that children are, in fact, people. Who do, actually, normally exist in the same spaces as adult people.

Too busy taking bad selfies to realise she was one of those screaming kids many years ago...

Would such a community allow a "buffer" of space of sorts for those who were child-free, but an unplanned kid happened? Like, say at the middle of the area there were strict child-free. If something happened and a kid came into the picture, the parents could move to the outer side of the radius, a transition spot until they get another place. Seems softer than a straight eviction. Coming from someone who doesn't have kids, doesn't want to, has an IUD and whose husband already had a vasectomy.

There are kid free vacation resorts.

She's an "influencer", and that already makes me lose most of the respect that I would have for her and her opinions. A perusal through her Instagram shows that she's all about wealthy-kid style performative justice, selling overpriced pseudo-environmental junk as though it was saving the planet, pushing toxic body standards, oh, and pushing Nestle products. Looking at the people she spends time with - she makes sure to spend her time only with people who look good on Instagram photos. There are a whole bunch of other questionable thing son her Ig as well. She hates kids because they mess up the perfect life that she's trying to photograph. Kids aren't impressed with "influencers", so they must be banned from her vicinity. I'm pretty sure that she hates old people, as well.

Probably an unpopular opinion: this woman is a major AH for proposing this. I'm childfree, I totally understand the need to have quiet times, but what this person (and ppl likeminded) fail to understand, is that children are people too!!!!! I bet this person, as well as everyone here, myself included, annoyed the sh*t out of a lot of ppl in various places in our childhoods. If the idea of segragating people of color, indigenous, and other minorities is outrageous, criminal nowadays, why is it ok to segragate children? I understand wanting a child-free event, but this proposition is just horrible! People on the internet is always preaching empathy, we always vent about our traumas (mostly come from our formative years). To do this and support this idea is ludicrous and hypocrite. I'm all for accontability of bad parenting / bad child behaviour. The world needs this to be a better place. But what this person is saying is insane at best and downright criminal IMHO. Edited for clarification.

I'd like influencers gated communauties, but really gated with bars