Kids

NYTimes piece on "End of Babies," asks a lot of the right questions and yet feels totally off.

The article focuses on Capitalism as the culprit (of course) and pays a few nods toward declining religion. But what about Culture? We opted for a dowhateveryouwantism Culture. Should we be surprised that a lot of people dowhatevertheywant instead of settling down?

All I know is that in the 1980s everyone mocked the cultural conservatives, but as far as I can tell, their warnings about what was happing inside our culture were more prescient than any other political, social, or technological group.