Our contemporary public debate recognizes this problem but assumes it is largely a “schools problem.” On the contrary, we have seen that most of the … - Robert D. Putnam

Delayed parenting helps kids, because older parents are generally better equipped to support their kids, both materially and emotionally.

the more fundamental problem with the big government explanation is that by most measures (all spending, or spending on the welfare state in real per capita terms, or spending as a fraction of GDP; number of government employees) the size of government lagged behind the I-we-I curve by several decades. Federal government spending and the number of employees rose steadily in tandem with the I-we-I curve from 1900 to 1970 and kept rising until they leveled off after the 1980s.

As a matter of fact, mankind now possesses for the first time the tools and knowledge to create whatever kind of world he wants...