Wow, don’t know what to make of that social commentary bob. Just to clarify for those scoring at home, #3 was a joke, right?
I’m with you on prohibitive cost of housing is affecting young families or families to be, that’s the primary reason it will return to normal. I do disagree that yuppies postpone marriage because of housing costs, being married cuts your housing cost by 50%, I think that people have postponed divorce because of the high cost of housing. I know I did and I know housing a single person in a house half the size is not half the cost, it’s closer to 75% of the cost.
Yuppies are postponing marriage because they want to and they should, marrying young isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
Back to #3, do you honestly believe that the third component in the decline of western civilization will be the media’s tolerance of alternative lifestyles. I am a straight guy and a parent yet I have no fear that watching Will and Grace or Ellen on T.V. will make my kids gay. Rosie Odonnel might make you puke but it won’t make you gay. I am no expert but I have read a few books and I think the whole gay thing can’t be blamed on the media, scientists believe it has something to do with people being attracted to other people of the same sex, however I could be wrong and until I confirm it we all may want to stay away from the media.
