Parenthood gives you a stake in your local surroundings that's load-bearing for maintaining civilization. I don't think it's a coincidence that SF became San Fransicko after decades of VC culture propagandized the family-later-but-grind-first ethos for startups.

I think the road to that dead end is finally being retraced, but its path might take as long to unwind as it did to pave. A western version of the one-child policy. It's hard to reprogram culture. But reprogram we must. Grind>family is not virtuous.