The American family is falling apart

[Stefan.De.Machtige]

Conina said:

Stefan.De.Machtige said:

A lot of people are saying that marriage doesn't matter for children of general family live. Wel if that's the case, why is fertility way down for most (if not all) countries where the marriage rate tanked...?

The answer is simple:
When the chief pair bonding mechanism fails, the bonding fails also. There was a reason why marriage was pushed in the past. They broke the social/religious contract and with it the core of society.

Ain't it a good thing if fertility goes down in many countries?

The world population has grown from 1.65 billion to 7.6 billion since 1900 and is still growing on a planet with limited resources:

http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/

Do we really need more people on the planet? 

That is certainly a very valid question. I'm not really sure what the answer is.

The population increase you speak off did lead to the modern age because we hit a certain population plateau no other age could achieve. On the other hand, our growing presence does its downsides.

Overall i do believe our current population level with current technology are not problematic.

So i would say no for the moment, but we don't need less either. Same-ish should be fine.