Family Time with Timothy Carney

About this episode

Timothy Carney discusses the challenges of raising children in today's culture and the implications of child-free zones.

Timothy Carney, an AEI senior fellow and the author of Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than It Needs to Be, talks about the village it takes to raise a child and the metaphorical (and sometimes literal) rise of “No Children Allowed” signs. Highlights 2:30 A lively home and coffee shop 4:00 Trumpy Christians? 7:15 Find a secular van fam, win a free book! 16:30 Was Hillary right? 22:15 Trickling down to Fishtown? 29:30 House plans, town plans 36:30 Work from home 43:45 Childless for the planet or better by the trillion 54:00 Ponzi scheme or Korean contagion 57:00 The sporting life Resources Tim’s bio and buy the book FPR at 15 Churchy Trump resistance column Nancy Pearcey’s “Common Good Men” Korean “Child Free”Zones Wendell Kimbrough helps us find our way home

People in this episode

Guest: Timothy Carney

Topics covered

• parenting
• cultural challenges
• child-free zones
• community support
• political commentary
• work-life balance

Keywords

• raising kids
• cultural issues
• community
• childless
• politics
• work from home
• family dynamics

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: AEI

Books & works: Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than It Needs to Be

Places: Fishtown

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