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If You Want To Be A Grandparent One Day, Raise Your Kids To Get Married And Want Babies ASAP

If you’d rather spend your 60s holding grand-babies instead of watching your 30-something daughter livestream hormone injections, start laying the foundation for marriage and parenthood now.

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Recently, some dear friends (double-income, no kids, politically centrist) were talking with my 23-year-old daughter and her husband when the subject of children came up.

“How many do you want?” they asked.

“Five or six,” my daughter answered.

My friends were stunned.

Not hostile. Impressed, actually. But understandably bewildered. As the viral AOC hormone-injection video illustrates, postponing marriage and childbearing is not only normal, but a hallmark of female empowerment in today’s culture. 

None of their friends had more than two children and those children, some now adults, aren’t even thinking about marriage, much less babies. The idea that two 23-year-olds would be calmly and deliberately planning a large family was totally foreign to them.

“Is five or six even possible?” they wondered. “Could her body handle it?”

“Of course it’s possible. They’re starting early,” I replied.

And that’s the part our culture has forgotten.

For decades, young Americans have been handed a very specific order of operations: Get a degree. Get another degree. Get financially established. Pay off your debt. Travel. Discover yourself. Build a career. Maybe freeze your eggs so motherhood doesn’t stop you from making partner at the law firm. Buy a house. Then, once everything else is securely in place, think about getting married. And then maybe … have a baby.

We shouldn’t be surprised when that formula produces few grandchildren — or none at all.

Parents themselves are reinforcing these priorities. In Pew Research Center’s 2023 “Parenting in America Today” survey, roughly nine in ten parents said it was extremely or very important that their children become financially independent and have careers they enjoy. Forty-one percent prioritized earning a college degree.

How many said it was extremely or very important that their children eventually get........

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