All those influences have been around for hundreds of years and concern for the shrinking family was not an issue then. We have to look for another factor to explain a lower birth rate.
These activities were never the law of the land before the last 40 years. Look no further than the end of your nose.
20 posted on 05/13/2007 9:09:14 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell
(here come I, gravitas in tow.)