Well yes I wouldn’t disagree with your opening statement. Makes me want to expound a bit. Yes, with contraception and with freedom to be LGBTQ+ we’ve separated sex from fertility. A simultaneous truth, not all sex is intimately intimate, fair enough? It’s one thing to hookup, it’s another thing to be intimate enough to where needs are being aired and met and cared about. Needs, neediness, that’s what scares the youth. They don’t all have the enough of skills to cope with needs. Spanking is a handle-with-care need. Casual hookups are arguably a handle-with-care need too, but are not necessarily regarded as such provided there’s no oopsie pregnancy.
As for the birthrates, no matter what environmentalists say, I for one shall never be an antinatalist. The future generations could carry the solutions to today’s issues, to deny that outright is a judgement