The point remains that driving provides the most flexibility and choice for families and everything else is a downgrade. As you yourself pointed out, for one sp

The point remains that driving provides the most flexibility and choice for families and everything else is a downgrade. As you yourself pointed out, for one spouse to bike the other one may have to drive. Bike advocates tend to be disproportionately single, white and male, and for those reasons they tend to underweight that flexibility.