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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh course the rise is not a “good thing” for families or for children individually.
But we have spent so long trying to put a stamp of approval on prioritizing adult happiness (and defining it hedonistically in the short term) and on valuing every choice equally within society that there is now a generation of kids and young adults who do not see the point of marriage and will very likely die alone in their 80s.[/quote]

I’ve spent the last 8 years doing hospice work. Pretty nearly everyone dies alone in their 70s/80s/90s, because they’ve been predeceased by their spouse or were divorced or because, shocker, some folks never married. And plenty of the folks who did marry and had kids weren’t visited or cared for by their kids in their final years. Finally I have listened to many elderly men and women lament the decades they wasted on their long and unhappy marriages - I can count on one hand without needing all the digits the number of elders I cared for who spoke of happy marriages. I’ve also seen spouses clearly still abusing their terminally ill spouse.

The idea that marriage and kids will bring happiness and a warm fuzzy death surrounded by loved ones is tenuous as best. This board is full of the evidence disproving the notion. I see a lot of folks on this board trying desperately to convince themselves by harshly judging the people who choose another path. [/quote]

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