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| Victor Davis Hanson: The Disappearing American? |
| 2022-07-08 |
| BLUF: [ZERO] Our popular culture reflects this multifarious growing reluctance to raise children. And currently only 65% of children grow up in families with both parents. The 2012 Obamacare ad, “The Life of Julia,” fixated on the new ideal American woman: a single parent of one child, unmarried, and utterly reliant on nearly 65 years of government support. The 2013 follow-up bookend ad fetishized “Pajama Boy.” He was supposed to be a typical prolonged-adolescent, man-child — sitting at home in his child-like footie pajamas, sipping hot chocolate. “Pajama Boy” was likely the sort that “Julia” had no intention of marrying. There are historical downsides — economic, cultural, social, and military — to nations that shun child-raising. They shrink in size, age, no longer believe in transcendence, become mostly agnostic or atheistic, and obsess on the self. And sometimes they eventually become dysfunctional — and slowly disappear. |
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