Thats why the ROGD studies all survey parents and ignore the kids.

Thats why this headline is written this way:

Just as they refuse to uphold their end of any other social compact. They don't have the decency to be the knight, or even the conviction of purpose to be the orc. They are NPC villagers calling the captured princess a slut for fun.

Second, Samantha describes the patriarchal bargain and its breakdown. And that's all true even if it isn't absolute. But we should also note that many of the worst offenders seemingly most effected by the collapse *would themselves refuse to uphold their end of the bargain*.

First, "children desired" cannot be treated as a variable independent from economic or cultural factors. The number of children my wife and I want to have under any imaginable life style and the number of children we want to have if we were living in a staffed multi-generational manse are different.