I suspect that what will really make the difference is work-from-home. We know it's not resources -- we are much better off than preceding generations. It may b

I suspect that what will really make the difference is work-from-home. We know it's not resources -- we are much better off than preceding generations. It may be that without a sense of a home and being in the home, it's hard for people to feel like taking the next step of having children, so they don't. People who have children today are looking at a deal along these lines: - Send your kids away early in the morning to be looked after by strangers. - Go somewhere else to be looked after by strangers yourself. - After 10 hours (including commuting), come home to talk to your kids. - Wonder about what's really going on in their lives. - Do this for 20 or so years for each kid; maybe thirty years in total. I can see why people who consider this reflectively -- whose parents did this and whose grandparents did this -- might simply opt out.