Like a stone

Birth rates are dropping like a stone everywhere in the world such that the global population will begin slowly to decline. 

Marriage rates have tanked as has the concept of dating. More people than ever in our history are living alone and not everyone by choice. 

It seems that our social skills have taken a hit along with gender role expectations that kept our society humming, albeit imperfectly, for millennia. 

Many women have rejected the idea of domestic life in favor of developing themselves personally. Their traditional role of home organizer and child rearer is less appealing particularly when they see some of the shortfalls within the framework of their career path. 

Both sexes have had to rethink what each brings to the table in a fast-moving world of economic uncertainty and high dependability on a technology which has atrophied their social skills. 

This has left less genetically favorable people to fend for themselves thanks to hypergamy which isn't helping matters. 

Both platonic and romantic relationships have taken a hit with no simple reparation in sight.