I originally thought the demographic problem was like Atlas Shrugged. People were not having kids because it wasn’t advantageous to them. That is true to a certain extent, but it wasn’t because of what I thought it was.
Turns out it’s freaking day care. In European Countries where there is government paid childcare the birthrates are turning around. People will have the kids, but refuse to actually rear them themselves.
The wealthy always have anyway except some spent amounts of quality time with their children/families. Most were too busy doing their own thing, business, governing, parties, just like our times. Nanny, governess, wet nurse, day care, what is the essential difference? Sometimes web nurses were because of illness/inability to nurse, so that wouldn't count, but I suspect some didn't want the bother of it.