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Personally, I like the idea of leaving our children a more conservative society than the one we have lived through, and there is good reason to believe that it will be.

Nope. As the Gen-Xrs leave home and start their families they will become less and less beguiled by the social Darwinism of their youth. The Gen-Xrs are already crying for government to stop companies outsourcing their "jobs" and as their kids mature they will be applying for student loans and as they retire they will be demanding all they have paid into social security be paid back to them and their kids will be decrying the selfishness of the Gen-xrs.

Have you looked into the cycles of public policy, immigration, economics, and generational norms beyond your own life experience?

Churchill said, "The farther one looks back into history, the farther they can see into the future."

Your kids may be somewhat like their parents, but on the grand scale the generational trends that have shaped history have run in cycles of four generations each, much farther back than any of us can remember.

As the Gen-Xrs leave home and start their families...

Uh, we left home about twelve years ago, dude...