Valid concerns but completely misses the point. The point is that most people largely live in the moment and in previous times we had social pressure, limited a

Valid concerns but completely misses the point. The point is that most people largely live in the moment and in previous times we had social pressure, limited alternative entertainment options and abortion/birth control being shoddy/dangerous. In that environment living in the moment responding to your immediate wants and desires largely led to some form of partnership and children to make you happier in your old age/ carry on society. In an environment where social pressure has largely broken down (for both great benefit and great cost), birth control/abortion being inexpensive, relatively safe and effective, and a plethora of alternative entertainment options you see what unchecked living in the moment responding to your immediate desires gets you because it's what we have. There's no social pressure keeping the mid life crisis in check keeping marriages together through that trying time into old age where the partnership is really needed. There's often no partnership and no children to begin with. There's also much less missing out on the great talent of women in the work force, much better situations for homosexuals, etc. How do we keep the good and do away with the bad in a way that ensures the continuation of the species? I don't think anyone knows, as I certainly don't know. I think it's more likely the religious out procreate us and eventually gain a voting block big enough to push policy back towards the bad old (but stable/growing population situation) days, or the whole thing collapses and something else rises in the ashes after a prolonged dark ages like after the fall of Rome.