Individualism Breaks Large Families

The author argues that when each child is empowered to define their own moral code, parents cannot sustain coherent rules across multiple kids. A therapy‑inflected culture that encourages severing ties over perceived harms puts secular parents into a religion‑like dilemma: keep family norms or follow the dissenter. — If true, therapeutic individualism may erode family cohesion and suppress higher‑order fertility, with knock‑on effects for social policy and demography.