Hopelessness to Happiness in Family Life.

First I want to share a link to some videos that will change your life. It's a long documentary, so I will give you a brief summary, but I still encourage you to go and watch this!

Demographic Winter
It's called the Demographic Winter, and it's well done, including a lot of opinions from highly accredited economists, professors, authors, government leaders, etc. The basic idea from this video is that the previous belief that we will eventually overpopulate the earth because there is not enough room for the amount of people, is not true. In fact, according to some of these professionals we will begin to depopulate worldwide as early as 2040 as a result of the falling fertility rates.  Now this may not involve many of us, so I wanted to include some of the other negative effects that will come from these falling birth rates.  First of all, the economy will suffer as human capital decreases.  The more people we have going into retirement is not being matched by enough workers to support them.  We are going to have to start working harder to hold on to the same lifestyles we have grown up with.  Along with this, it's predicted that the real estate market will suffer as the "Baby boomers" sell their larger homes to downsize, without enough families to buy them.

Now, I don't want to lead us into hopelessness, or call for mass amounts of people to just start having babies.  I simply want us to change the culture. In this video they interview all kinds of people, who seem to have the same ideas of family. They say that having kids is a burden and if you have them there should only be 1 or 2.  I disagree, it's still the choice of the parents, but if we are able, it is our wonderful privilege to bring children into this world.

As human beings we thrive off relationships with those around us, and need them to remain emotionally well. The best thing we can do to change the world, is raise a generation of children in a stable family life, with love and support. According to the "Family System Theory", each individual in a family affects all of the other members of the system whether positive or not.  For example, to build a delicious cake, we need many different ingredients, all with varying purposes that are all still necessary.  Families are worth it.

*HAPPY FAMILIES CHANGE THE WORLD*