>Pay $56,000 a year so someone can work a $50,000 a year service job while strangers raise their children? Another aspect of this decline may be the "ideal" of

>Pay $56,000 a year so someone can work a $50,000 a year service job while strangers raise their children? Another aspect of this decline may be the "ideal" of the nuclear family. Family units used to be a lot more compact, so Grandma could watch the kids whenever necessary because she already lived with the family. All this seems to be doing is accelerating the falling birthrate and something like Social Security in the US was already forecast to be in trouble before people stopped having as many kids and supplying so many "replacement workers".