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BabyLand is a gated community in more ways than one

The game changes for people when they have kids and some of their friends don't. But how, and can the situation be any better?

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Ted Bauer
Sep 16, 2020
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I got a friend on Twitter named Leon who calls people with kids "BabyLand," i.e. they have new friends, new activities, they focus on new things, they go to new stores, they go to new restaurants, etc. They enter a new area. You don't see them as much.

Lest we start this post thinking that I am going to spend all of it bitching (I'm not), let me just say…

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