Where Have All The Children Gone?

David Curp emailed me a link to this interesting NY Times story about Vermont, which is facing a demographic crisis. Basically, Vermont is experiencing now (on its own rather small scale) a number of the problems which Europe is facing in the not too distant future (minus raucous immigrants) and that the US may face in another 20-30 years. Residents are not choosing to have many children, many young people who do grow up there move away to areas with more vibrant employment environments, and the majority of those moving in are retirees. This has resulted in the very real possibility that the demographic crunch will cause the state to have to start drastically scaling back services in the near future.