The End of Traditional Family Structures

The traditional timeline of life is officially dead. We aren't seeing a collapse of the

family, but a massive shift called the Second Demographic Transition. Basically,

society stopped prioritizing marriage as a duty and started chasing autonomy and self-expression

instead. That is why everyone is cohabitating, marriage ages are skyrocketing,

and birth rates are crashing below replacement levels. It’s not that people don’t want kids,

there is actually a huge fertility gap where people want families but literally can't

afford them. The global population is going to peak and then shrink within this century,

proving that how we choose to live matters more than biology.