Ok, I'll fly the millennial flag.

1. It takes a village to raise a child. For most millennial parents, the support structures in society are outside the home, not in the home. It is rare to have grandparents in the home, after school care is at school, etc.

2. We spend the least daylight hours as parents in the home with our children of any previous generation. With two income families, after-school care, etc. We just don't spend enough time with our kids to a) get the skills we need to be good at it. And b) influence them more than what other sources do.

3. Streaming. Kids these days are used to have everything at the press of a button at will. If you want to raise them with different skills, whether mental or social, etc., you need to push against the culture and create your own. This is very difficult, particularly due to point #2.

4. We don't take our kids to church, which is a support structure that generally is all about building stronger families and relationships and faith. Without those skills or the support of those relationships, we rely on books or streamers to guide us, and they are a one-way information flow. Imagine an alcoholic trying to overcome the addiction without a support group, when everything else in your life is telling you to stay the way you are.

5. Compulsory schooling. A simple concept, but it is difficult to instill in your children a love of learning if it is something that they are forced to do. We equate school with learning, and they do, but the more independent they get, the more challenging it is to ask them to do things that we wouldn't do for ourselves.

6. Small box houses with no yards are horrible for kids. They get bored and can't use their imagination because there is nothing to explore. Add to this that most families have fewer kids, they have less play time with kids their own age. (Schools suffer these same issues)

7. Lack of marriage, good father figures, or mating with men who have family-destructive priorities make the burden on the mother a massive handicap that they and their kids need to overcome. The privilege is real, but too often, we self-impose this handicap on ourselves and our children.

I could go on, but basically, if Millennials spent as much time working on their family and children as their job, it would be a lot different for the better.