 That still wouldn't be the right way to live, in my opinion, but that's not what's happening. What we find more often is that people give up on kids, and soon everything else follows. In the end, it's hard to live for other people, but it's harder to live for yourself. There are sacrifices you have to make for your family, many of them monetary. But if you don't have anyone to sacrifice for, then eventually you just run out of reasons to try at all. That's what we're witnessing in our culture today.