I had to laugh at that one because at least in my case, it's how things turned out. My two adult children (now nearly their 30s) have yet to have babies of their own so our recent Christmas gatherings have been mostly a geriatric affair. Grandparents snoring on the couches after dinner, nothing under the tree but gift cards and alcoholic beverages - nobody in the family young enough to give toys to.
It wasn't always this way. When I grew up, three of my four grandparents were already dead. Most of my uncles and aunts had multiple children, as many as seven. So my childhood Christmases were bedlam - children running around everywhere. I had so many cousins I could never name all of them off the top of my head. I had to get a piece of paper and put some thought into it as I made out my list!
So I do kind of fear that this is happening all around. Not good for America if we are only averaging one or two kids and having to bring in immigrants to make up the difference.
So if there is a baby boom starting to happen as another poster here pointed out, I would encourage that and hope it is not too little, too late.
In closing, I should mention that the big childhood scare inflicted by liberals growing up was overpopulation. All during the 1970s, there was best seller after best seller warning us of upcoming famines brought about by overpopulating the earth. In the same hysterical tones we hear about "global warming" today, we were warned that we would soon run out of food to feed everybody, run out of gasoline and just about every other natural resource.
I think most people of my generation were literally scared into having just the proverbial 1.2 kids so that we would not contribute to overpopulating the planet. Look where that kind of hysterical thinking has gotten us? I hope today's generation does not fall for the "global warming" baloney as we did for the overpopulation scam.
More common are stories like this:
Retired ex-coworker, over 65, his stepdaughter rejected her parents’ advice and married young, cranked out 3 babies and then got divorced. Spoiled and entitled she dumps her kids on the grandparents whenever she has a date or something better to do, and throws a snit whenever they are not available or willing. Usually they are, over guilt about what will happen to their grandchildren if raised by this thirtysomething adolescent.
Distant cousin of mine, never married, pushing 40, never stably employed, gets herself knocked-up in a one night stand by some naer-do-well who ends up in prison halfway across the country. She signs up for all of the welfare goodies, but in return the state makes her name the father, who now has visitation rights in exchange for his $35/month child support payments coming out of his license plate earnings. Again dumps the kid on her widowed father whenever she wants to go out and have fun, and he obliges over concern for the child. He is in his 70’s, in poor health, and only prays he will live long enough for his grandchild to make it to 18.
Spoiled, entitled, selfish young women are a big big big big BIG part of the problem in my experience.
There is if you know where to look. We have 5 kids, and in my little corner of traditionalist Catholicism, we are the small family. No abortion, no birth control, and no divorce. Of course we are a tiny numerical minority nationally but....logarithmic growth curves and all! And I understand similar things are happening in some Protestant communities and Orthodox Judaism.
Help is on the way...whether it'll be enough I dunno.