A Childish Life

By: American Decency Staff

Our declining birth rates, and the fact that one in five women will remain childless today, as distinct from one in ten as recently as the ’70s, don’t tell us about the vanishing child at all. This is actually the era defined by the conquest of the child. We are not reducing the number of children—we are increasing the percentage of them, and we do this by perpetuating childhood as far as we can make it go. With dual incomes, credit cards, endless distractions, and birth control devices, that’s pretty far. Perhaps the most defining feature of childhood—and the most definitive evidence of its perpetuation in our culture—is that children are not having children.

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