The future will be different from what which we see now. We will see a reversal - the world will revert to a traditional family and lifestyle.
Thus, the traditional, nuclear family will return, with both parents in the picture. The single parent family will all but disappear, and exist only in cases of a tragedy.
Divorces will be drastically curtailed. People will marry before having children.
The traditional, nuclear family will return. The family structure that we see today is an aberration.
Today, it has become acceptable for women to go out to work. Women may always work, but there will be a return to traditional norms. Work will not be presented as their goal in life, rather than raising their children.
Indeed, this issue began with the industrial revolution, and changed the family structure.
Parents will want something better and different. It will not be sufficient to have children and let them grow up without supervision. They will want to return to parenting. They will want their children to maintain and continue their family tradition. They will want to raise the children based on concepts, ideas, and philosophies.
They will want the security of their family structure.
People will begin to abandon the Hollywood model, that is based purely on physical attraction. Instead, they will consider other issues when ,a href="http://www.oocities.org/grossmanparenting/Dating/Intro.html">dating and searching for their partner for life.
Although all of these changes will be presented as a new model, in reality it will be a return to the lifestyle in the recent past. Future generations will see the end of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first centuries as an aberration.
When this aberration is corrected, people will have more fulfillment from life, more of a desire to live, and have different priorities in life.
Will this reversal make people more happy in future generations?
It's hard to say. After all, we cannot say that people are not happy today. Society does have a way of maintaining happiness, and of convincing people that they are satisfied with the existing structure.
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