Commissioned by the conservative think tank American Compass, YouGov asked 1,000 parents last year: “If you had to choose one of the following courses for your child’s life to take by the time they reach age 40, which would your prefer: happily married with children but just getting by financially, or financially well-off but single with no children in the household?”
While a firm majority of parents surveyed (60%) chose “happily married with children,” a substantial minority (40%) chose “rich, single, and childless.”
Now maybe it is unfair to label the “rich, single, and childless” crowd barbarians, but a society in which 40% of the population prioritizes wealth over family is not a society that will survive for very long. There simply won’t be enough children for new generations to sustain it.
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