Many of the traditions and responsibilities people grown up with through most of human history, or many of those are now put to the side. The notion that we really don't have bother having children probably doesn't have much of a future. What's wrong with the fast changing norm so we've, again, in america, and much in good chunks the western world, and it may spread elsewhere? A things that were understood to be obviously true five years ago, i'll take freedom of speech, just to pick an obvious one, that's now seen as bad.
Traditions and norms can seem at best out-of-touch and at worst offensive to many a modern mind. But Israeli computer scientist and Talmud scholar Moshe Koppel argues that traditions and norms--if they evolve slowly--create trust, develop our capacity for deferred gratification, and even, in the case of how we prepare cassava, protect us from poisoning. Listen as the author of Judaism Straight Up: Why Real Religion Endures talks with EconTalk Russ Roberts about tradition, religion, tribalism, resilience, and emergent order.