[dragnet2]

To have babies, raise families in middle class America people need good, long term secure jobs, affordable medical benefits, (Ya know how much it cost to have one baby without good insurance?) They need homes to raise them in, etc, etc....

Young folks in Middle America has none of that

[BlackVeil]

Very true - and people need something which is disappearing - security of employment, especially for adult men. How can one take on a long-term commitment if one’s job and income are always provisional and short-term? It is no accident that the years of the baby boom were the golden age of paid employment and job security.

[kearnyirish2]

“To have babies, raise families in middle class America people need good, long term secure jobs, affordable medical benefits, (Ya know how much it cost to have one baby without good insurance?) They need homes to raise them in, etc, etc...Young folks in Middle America has none of that”

There is a direct correlation between the lack of new middle-class families and the housing stagnation; who is going to commit to 30 years of mortgage payments for a house in which they can raise dogs?

[papertyger]

To have babies, raise families in middle class America people need good, long term secure jobs, affordable medical benefits,

And courts that don't play the role of women's "hired muscle."