Younger couples are much more flexible about gender roles and more willing to share both parenting and breadwinning. The threats to the family are stubborn. They have already persisted long after they were first identified and will not be solved without the assertive and co-ordinated efforts of many people. We can't treat the family as a welfare issue, an equality issue, an employment issue, or a law and order issue. It's way bigger than that.
Families make people.
In a family, we express our love and care for one another, our interdependence and our instinct to cherish life. In the Gay Sixties when Western Youth set out to change the world, the students of Paris re-enacted the Revolution and many adults feared it was not just a farcical rerun of history but a brand new ideological revolution which would indeed change the world to the sound of pop music. The word revolution became part of pop music and was frittered away, much as the word Classic has been over the last decade or two. The 20th century talk of the book reminds me of that. And, looking back down the long avenue of this century, you count the graves of the doomsayers but the book drives on into the third millennium.