A little bit of that exists but there's sort of a gender war going on at the moment. A lot of men are fed up with the current crop of selfish demanding females and don't want to get shafted in a divorce (or with child support) so they're following the MGTOW trend. As far as having kids, most are barely getting by financially with high rent, high mortages and the high cost of living due to inflation. Affording kids is out of the question.
Personally I think the education system plays a massive role in this and society's ills in general. Public education is based on two very antiquated dogmas: 1) A one size fits all standard. 2) reward and punishment based motivational compliance. Worsened by the fact no child has the option of opting out or changing schools that hold a different philosophy.
Nature is very different however. Every kid matures at a different rate, and girls especially on average mature two years faster than boys. Maturity dictates success or failure wherever the bar is set. The end result is that girls are as a whole are predominantly rewarded for their maturity, while boys as a whole are predominantly punished for their immaturity. Perpetual rewarding of easily accomplished expectations leads to an elevated sense of self worth, while perpetually punishing expectations without the learned skills or maturity to execute them successfully leads to low self esteem, depression, anger, defiance and resentment.
The outcome these two misguided dogmas has documented evidence everywhere. The majority of bad grades, suspensions, punitive measures, special education services, ect in schools are boys. The incarceration rates, life expectancy, mental illness statistics, poor social views, ect are worse for men.
This does not mean boy are inferior to girls, rather that boys hit their cognitive maturity two years latter and nothing more or less than that. And that schools are punishing human nature at no fault of their own.
Children are very innocent minds. They can not comprehend that the entire system is nothing more than a random bet at quantifying human behavior based on a man who rigged rat studies to say what ever he wanted them to say so he could come to terms with his own unhappy upbringing. So children and latter adults come up with the conclusion that there is a conspiracy, an agenda deliberately targeting boys. The end results MGTOW, MRA, civil war movements, ect which appeal to and vindicate the injustices that dogma and ignorance has brought to men and other people.
There will come a day when radical behaviorism and the people and institutions that employed it will be seen as one the worst and inhuman harms done to human race.
