The revolutionary part consists of a barrage of ideas unleashed against the notion of family as we have known it. Beginning in the 1960s and continuing today, the social stigma that argued against divorce has been removed, replaced with the nonjudgmental attitude that no human relationship is to be preferred over any other. It also discouraged them from doing wrong things, while reinforcing moral and ethical norms. Societal disapproval of certain behavior thought to be bad for individuals and culture and its promotion of other behavior deemed to be good for both was thought to be central to the promotion of the general welfare. Lately, though, the idea of a two-parent household has been seen as one of many options, and not a particularly good one at that.
Children take time.
They infringe on the monetary goals of a two-income household. There is the cost of day care and the orthodontist and clothes and college. Perhaps the traditionalists have spent too much time criticizing the unraveling nuclear family and not enough time promoting its benefits. A generation lost to such notions as objective truth must be sold on an idea the way television appeals to them to buy products. What the Census figures reveal is beyond the power of legislators or a president to fix.