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Hey, everyone. So a new poll in the U.S. suggests, you've probably heard this

last week or the week before, because it got a lot of coverage, that classically American values,

such as religion and having children, even having children, believe it or not, have receded

in importance over the past 25 years.

Only 30% of 2023 respondents overall said having children was very important to them, compared with 59% in 1998.

That is pretty unbelievable. In 1998, by the way, happens to be the year that I was married.

So this is, it's interesting for me to think about how this has happened in conjunction with the very years that I, you know, got married and had kids.

The one and only value, however, that has increased in importance to Americans over these past 25 years where people are in agreement is money,

which moved from 31% to 43%.

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