This is the third rail and I am glad you brought it up. Social security programs to help seniors is one of the reasons people don’t have kids - why have kids to take care of you in your old age when the government can do it.
It cracks me up that this thread is full of comments about women.
Men must turn their hearts towards toward their children. When men want to be fathers and hold that standard up to other men and boys as the epitome of true manhood, then families will be formed.
Where men actually lead, women follow. This mess we are in now is where men led. Feminism was rooted in the soil of the Playboy and GQ philosophy of carnality and materialism.
You cannot fullfill the desires of the flesh and the spirit at the same time. Marriage and family is fundamentally a spiritual undertaking. It’s gonna take another Great Awakening to reverse the current trend.