These days many parents want to give an urban lifestyle to their children. They want to move to the main cities instead of moving to suburbs as their parents did. They seek urban lifestyle, which offers many amenities like proximity to restaurants, museums and other places, which are useful and entertaining.

Parents want their children to live in an ambiance, which offers the lifestyle they seek for their children. Parents in cities such as Seattle, Minneapolis and Denver want new downtown schools, more affordable housing, which is apt for families.

According to Jenny Kelly, a marketing consultant who helped create a parents group in 2013 now called Parents for a Better Downtown Seattle, "The benefit of living in the city so far outweighed what we would get by moving out to the suburbs".

She moved with her husband to downtown, when they were in their 20s and had a 2-year-old child Elea. Both go to work from their apartment in Pioneer Square. Developers can construct taller buildings in Seattle in order to provide space for a school, but no one has paid attention to this offer so far.

Portland has revised building codes in the direction of allowing courtyard housing, which is considered an attraction for families. And Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has guaranteed that she will grow her city by 10,000 families.

Gary Johnson, Seattle's city center coordinator said that families with children indicate the health of an urban neighborhood. There is still a quite smaller percentage of Seattle's population of children, compared to other states in the US. But according to Sightline Institute, a Seattle-based think tank, recent trends indicate increase in their population.