You gotta admit your opening statement was a bit hyperbolic.
Anyway, no dispute regarding your factoids, they are pretty well known bits I think.
I just had to point out how much I agree with your reference to the most significant growth metric in youth-oriented social activity: the cool factor!
And by youth, we must now include young parents. Who are today pre-choosing for the kids - entirely based on their desired score of the cool-ometer.
It is one of the most selfish new types of child abuse to come down the pike in a while. Hip hetero couples can make the scene with or without the gene. Just sacrifice your kid(s) and your in like Flynn - without actually getting excrement on your on instrument.
Depravity by proxy is all the rage.
Yes, admittedly, most if not ALL ( except for the bit about the early 18th century Brit governor&mayor of N.Y. and N.J., which is not all that well known )of my factoids, are, or rather, should be, extremely well known by all high schoolers.
The newest Muchausen by proxy syndrome, of parents, especially by mothers, who now reach for fame, acceptance, and "coolness", by claiming that their extremely young child is NOT the sex that their genitalia would easily prove they are, is not only shocking, utterly disgusting, but sick and extreme child abuse.
This is a brand new phenomenon, with absolutely NO basis is reality! I don't know how it began, but it is now repulsively extant in America and the UK. It may be in other nations as well, but if it is, I haven't read about it.