article_snippet: The benefit of living in the city so far outweighed what we would get by moving out to the suburbs,' said Jenny Kelly, 32, a marketing consultant who helped form a parents group in 2013, now called Parents for a Better Downtown Seattle.
article_snippet: Families with children are indicator species about the health of an urban neighborhood,' said Gary Johnson, Seattle's city center coordinator.
article_snippet: For decades, Seattle has had a well-earned reputation as a childless city.
article_snippet: Children still make up a much smaller percentage of Seattle's population, compared with the rest of the state or the U.S, but recent trends suggest Seattle is doing a better job of holding onto those kids, according to Sightline Institute, a Seattle-based think tank.
article_snippet: Seattle is growing Seattle share of kids under 15 at a time when that percentage is declining elsewhere. '
article_snippet: Between 2007 and 2012, the number of downtown kids enrolled in kindergarten to eighth grade jumped nearly 30 per cent, according to the Downtown Seattle Association, a business group that has worked to get more families downtown.
article_snippet: The benefit of living in the city so far outweighed what we would get by moving out to the suburbs,' said Jenny Kelly, 32, who helped form a parents group in 2013, now called Parents for a Better Downtown Seattle .
highlights_snippet: 'Families with children are indicator species about the health of an urban neighborhood,' says Gary Johnson, Seattle's city center coordinator .